{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/294",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 20 (redemption value of voucher for replacement or repair)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(b), for “£60.75” substitute “£61.77”;\n(b) in paragraph (3), for “£15.80” substitute “£16.06”.\n(3) In Schedule 1 (voucher letter codes and face values - supply and replacement), in column (3) (face value of voucher) of the table—\n(a) for “£41.70” substitute “£42.40”;\n(b) for “£63.20” substitute “£64.26”;\n(c) for “£92.60” substitute “£94.14”;\n(d) for “£208.90” substitute “£212.40”;\n(e) for “£71.90” substitute “£73.10”;\n(f) for “£91.20” substitute “£92.72”;\n(g) for “£118.50” substitute “£120.48”;\n(h) for “£229.70” substitute “£233.56”;\n(i) for “£214.00” substitute “£217.58”;\n(j) for “£60.75” substitute “£61.77”.\n(4) In Schedule 2 (prisms, tints, photochromic lenses, small and special glasses and complex appliances)—\n(a) in paragraph 1(1)—\n(i) in paragraph (a), for “£13.45” substitute “£13.67”;\n(ii) in paragraph (b), for “£16.40” substitute “£16.67”;\n(iii) in paragraph (c), for “£4.70” substitute “£4.77”;\n(iv) in paragraph (d), for “£5.20” substitute “£5.28”;\n(v) in paragraph (e)—\n(aa) for “£68.45” substitute “£69.60”;\n(bb) for “£60.75” substitute “£61.77”;\n(cc) for “£32.80” substitute “£33.35”;\n(vi) in paragraph (f)—\n(aa) in sub-paragraph (i), for “£68.45” substitute “£69.60”;\n(bb) in sub-paragraph (ii), for “£60.75” substitute “£61.77”;\n(cc) in sub-paragraph (iii), for “£32.80” substitute “£33.35”;\n(b) in paragraph 2—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a), for “£15.55” substitute “£15.81”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “£39.90” substitute “£40.57”.\n(5) In Schedule 3 (voucher values – repair), for the table substitute—\n“\n(1)\n(2)\nNature of repair\nLetter of code - value of voucher\nA\nB\nC\nD\nE\nF\nG\nH\nI\n£\n£\n£\n£\n£\n£\n£\n£\n£\nRepair or replacement of one lens\n£13.17\n£24.10\n£39.04\n£98.17\n£28.52\n£38.33\n£52.21\n£108.75\n£100.76\nRepair or replacement of two lenses\n£26.34\n£48.20\n£78.08\n£196.34\n£57.04\n£76.66\n£104.42\n£217.50\n£201.52\nRepair or replacement of the front of a frame\n£13.47\n£13.47\n£13.47\n£13.47\n£13.47\n£13.47\n£13.47\n£13.47\n£13.47\nRepair or replacement of the side of a frame\n£7.98\n£7.98\n£7.98\n£7.98\n£7.98\n£7.98\n£7.98\n£7.98\n£7.98\nRepair or replacement of the whole of a frame\n£16.06\n£16.06\n£16.06\n£16.06\n£16.06\n£16.06\n£16.06\n£16.06\n£16.06.\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
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      "text": "S.I. 2013/461. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2016/325, S.I. 2022/221 and S.I. 2023/244. Under the Health and Care Act 2022, the NHS Commissioning Board was renamed NHS England (section 1). As a consequence of that change, under paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 1 to the Health and Care Act 2022, the references to the NHS Commissioning Board in S.I. 2013/261 (defined as “the Board” in regulation 1(1)) are to be read, in relation to any time on or after 1st July 2022, as references to NHS England."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/294/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:33:25.820905+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."
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