{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2004/1659",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-wales-regulations-2004",
  "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) (Wales) Regulations 2004 and will come into force on 1 July 2004.\n(2) In these Regulations “the 1997 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1997”) means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997.\n(3) These Regulations apply to Wales only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.1997/818; the relevant amending instruments are S.I.1997/2488, 1998/499, 1999/609, 2000/978 (W.48), 2000/3119 (W.198), 2001/1362 (W.90) and 1423 (W.98), 2002/186 (W.25) and 1506 (W.151) and 2003/301 (W.43) and 955 (W.129)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1659/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:20.615065+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."
}