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Explanatory note

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These Regulations make amendments to the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997 and the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic) Regulations 1986 consequent on the introduction of pension credit guarantee credit in the State Pension Credit Act 2002. The purpose of the amendments is to ensure that those in receipt of pension credit guarantee credit and members of their families will be entitled to National Health Service vouchers to put towards the cost of spectacles and contact lenses and to General Ophthalmic Services free of charge.