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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/609",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "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 Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/818. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/2488 and 1998/499."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/609/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:58:25.659040+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."
}