{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1989/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1989/regulation-22.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/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Signatures",
  "text": "(1) A signature required by these regulations may be given–\n(a) on behalf of a child by either parent or, in the absence of both parents, the guardian or other adult person who has the care of the child;\n(b) on behalf of any other person who is incapable of giving the signature, by a relative or any other adult who has the care of that person; or\n(c) on behalf of any person under 18 years of age–\n(i) in the care of any authority to whose care he has been committed under the provisions of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 or which has received him into care under the Child Care Act 1980, by a person duly authorised by that authority;\n(ii) in the care of a voluntary organisation, by that organisation or a person duly authorised by them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1969 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/396/regulation/22",
    "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."
}