{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1989/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1989/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/396",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Issue of vouchers by health authorities",
  "text": "(1) A person whose sight is tested by a health authority who considers that he may be an eligible person and wishes a payment to be made under these Regulations in his case shall indicate to that health authority that he may be an eligible person.\n(2) A health authority which, following a testing of sight, issues a prescription for an optical appliance to a patient–\n(a) who has indicated that he may be an eligible person;\n(b) who (whether or not he has so indicated) is issued with a prescription for a complex appliance; or\n(c) who is an eligible person by virtue of regulation 8(5),\nshall issue to the patient a voucher relating to the optical appliance prescribed.\n(3) The health authority issuing the voucher shall–\n(a) mark on it the letter code specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 which relates to the type of optical appliance prescribed as set out in column 1 of that Schedule;\n(b) duly complete the relevant parts of the voucher with the name and address of the patient, the patient’s age if under 19, particulars of the prescription issued to the patient, the date on which the patient’s sight was tested and the date of issue of the voucher.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/583",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/396/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:47:59.924300+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."
}