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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1992/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/404",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS",
  "text": "“SCHEDULE 1\nVOUCHER LETTER CODES AND FACE VALUES—SUPPLY AND REPLACEMENT\nRegulations 1(2), 9(3)(a), 10(3)(a), 11(3)(a) and 17(2)(a) and (3)(a)\n1\n2\n3\nType of optical appliance\nLetter code\nFace value of voucher\n1 Glasses with single vision lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 2 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres and not more than 4 dioptres.\nA\n£23.70\n2 Glasses with single vision lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 4 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres.\nB\n£37.40\n3 Glasses with single vision lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 20 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\n(b) with a spherical power of not more than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 4 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres;\n(c) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but nor more than 4 dioptres.\nC\n£51.00\n4 Glasses with single vision lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 20 dioptres with any cylindrical power;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 20 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres.\nD\n£100.00\n5 Glasses with bifocal lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 2 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres and not more than 4 dioptres.\nE\n£41.00\n6 Glasses with bifocal lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 4 dioptres.\nF\n£54.00\n7 Glasses with bifocal lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 4 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres;\n(c) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 4 dioptres.\nG\n£65.00\n8 Glasses with prism-controlled bifocal lenses of any power or with bifocal lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres.\nH\n£110.00\n9 Glasses not falling within any of paragraphs 1 to 8 for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by a health authority or an NHS trust.\nI\n£110.00\n10 Contact lenses for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by a health authority or an NHS trust.\nJ\n£35.90 (per lens)\n”",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/404/schedule",
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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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