{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1999/schedule/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1999/schedule/part-I.json",
  "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": "schedule/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS",
  "text": "“SCHEDULE 1\nVOUCHER LETTER CODES AND FACE VALUES—SUPPLY AND REPLACEMENT\nRegulations 1(2), 9(2)(a), 10(2)(a) and 16(2)(a) and (3)(a)\n(1) Type of optical appliance\n(2) Letter code\n(3) Face value of voucher\n1 Glasses with single vision lenses of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres.\nA\n£28.70\n2 Glasses with single vision lenses–\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres.\nB\n£43.60\n3 Glasses with single vision lenses of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres.\nC\n£59.40\n4 Glasses with single vision lenses–\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power;\n(b) of a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres with any spherical power.\nD\n£134.20\n5 Glasses with bifocal lenses of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres.\nE\n£49.50\n6 Glasses with bifocal lenses–\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres.\nF\n£63.00\n7 Glasses with bifocal lenses of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\nG\n£75.80\n8 Glasses with prism-controlled bifocal lenses of any power or with bifocal lenses–\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power;\n(b) with a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres with any spherical power.\nH\n£147.50\n9 Glasses not falling within any of paragraphs 1 to 8 for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by an NHS trust.\nI\n£147.50\n10 Contact lenses for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by an NHS trust.\nJ\n£42.00\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/609/schedule/part/I",
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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."
}