{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/818",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Issue of vouchers by NHS trusts",
  "text": "(1) An NHS trust which, following a testing of sight, issues a prescription for an optical appliance to a patient—\n(a) who has indicated that he is 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(2) The NHS trust 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 date of birth, 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": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/1824",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Restructuring of National Health Service Bodies: Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/1824",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Restructuring of National Health Service Bodies: Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2023/1047",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/818/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:20:50.018635+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."
}