{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-wales-no2-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2014/2015",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-wales-no2-regulations-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997 (“the Optical Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 1 of the Optical Regulations so as to make reference to a 1% increase in the NHS sight test fees.\nThe Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/2015/note",
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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."
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