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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-no-2-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/547",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-no-2-regulations-2002",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for payments to be made by means of a voucher system in respect of costs incurred by certain categories of persons in connection with the supply, replacement and repair of optical appliances.\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 8 of the principal Regulations to increase the income level at which recipients of tax credits are entitled to supply of NHS optical appliances.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 19 of the principal Regulations (redemption value of voucher for replacement or repair) to increase the redemption value of a voucher issued towards the cost of replacement of a single contact lens and to increase the maximum contribution by way of a voucher to the cost of repair of a frame.\nSchedule 1 to the principal Regulations is amended by regulation 4 to increase the value of vouchers issued towards the costs of the supply and replacement of glasses and contact lenses. Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations is amended to increase the additional values for vouchers for prisms, tints, photochromic lenses and special categories of appliances.\nA new Schedule 3 is substituted in the principal Regulations to increase the value of vouchers issued towards the cost of the repair and replacement of optical appliances (regulation 4 and the Schedule).\nIn most cases the rate of increase is approximately 1.7%. There are higher increases for prisms.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/547/note",
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  "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."
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