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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/regulation-15.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/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Eligibility—replacement or repair",
  "text": "(1) A payment shall be made as provided for by this Part of these Regulations to meet, or contribute towards, any cost accepted by the responsible authority as having been incurred (whether by way of charge under the Act or otherwise) for the replacement or repair of an optical appliance for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight of—\n(a) a child, where the appliance needs replacement or repair in consequence of loss or damage;\n(b) a person of any description specified in regulation 8(2)(c), (d) or (e) suffering from illness, where the appliance needs replacement or repair in consequence of its loss or damage and the responsible authority is satisfied, after making such enquiries as it considers relevant, that the loss or damage would not have occurred but for that illness.\n(2) No payment shall be made by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) or (b) unless the responsible authority is satisfied, after making such enquiries as it considers relevant, that the full cost of replacement or repair cannot be met under the terms of any warranty, insurance or other arrangement made with its supplier or manufacturer.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3066",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3066",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/594",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2000/978",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2023/1047",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "words 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/15",
    "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."
}