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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-no-2-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2328",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-no-2-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 7th October 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/396, amended by S.I. 1990/495, 1991/583, 1991/1680, 1991/2465, 1992/404, 1993/418, 1994/131, 1994/495, 1994/2619, 1995/34, 1995/691, 1995/2307 and 1996/582."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2328/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:44.961367+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."
}