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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/regulation-17",
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  "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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Use of vouchers for replacement or repair",
  "text": "The supplier may use the voucher as being in substitution for payment by the patient of an amount equal to its redemption value, being the whole or part of the cost incurred for the replacement or repair.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/818/regulation/17",
    "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."
}