{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Payments to sight testers",
  "text": "(1) The responsible authority shall, if the conditions specified in paragraph (2) are fulfilled, make a payment of the voucher’s redemption value to an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician who has used a voucher in accordance with regulation 4(4).\n(2) The conditions specified in paragraph (1) are that—\n(a) the patient has signed the declaration referred to in regulation 4(3);\n(b) the ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician has—\n(i) made a claim for a payment on a duly completed voucher to the responsible authority within the period of three months beginning with the date of the testing of sight; and\n(ii) informed the responsible authority of the amount of the patient’s contribution.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}