{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/594",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "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 Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997.\n(3) These Regulations extend only to England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/818 as amended by S.I. 1997/2488, 1998/499, 1999/609 and 1999/2562."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/594/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:32.847119+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."
}