{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/542",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st April 2007.\n(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England.\n(3) In these Regulations “the Optical 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; amended by S.I. 1999/609, 2000/5934, 2001/414, 3066 and 3323, 2002/547 and 1306, 2003/657 and 2381, 2004/642, 936 and 1138, 2005/818 and 2006/479 and 3123."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/542/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:04:04.475241+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."
}