{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-england-regulations-2002/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-england-regulations-2002/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/35",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (England) Regulations 2002, and shall come into force on 1st February 2002.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997.\n(3) These regulations extend to England only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/818; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/2488, 1998/499, 1999/609, 1999/2562, 2000/594, 2000/3029, 2001/414, 2001/749 and 2001/3066."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/35/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:17:01.047171+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}