{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/schedule-1", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-1997/schedule-1.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": "schedule/1", "kind": "schedule", "number": "1", "heading": "VOUCHER LETTER CODES AND FACE VALUES—SUPPLY AND REPLACEMENT", "text": "(1) Type of optical appliance\n(2) Letter code\n(3) Face value of voucher\n1 Glasses with single vision lenses of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres.\nA\n£28.70\n2 Glasses with single vision lenses–\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres.\nB\n£43.60\n3 Glasses with single vision lenses of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres.\nC\n£59.40\n4 Glasses with single vision lenses–\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power;\n(b) of a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres with any spherical power.\nD\n£134.20\n5 Glasses with bifocal lenses of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres.\nE\n£49.50\n6 Glasses with bifocal lenses–\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres.\nF\n£63.00\n7 Glasses with bifocal lenses of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\nG\n£75.80\n8 Glasses with prism-controlled bifocal lenses of any power or with bifocal lenses–\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power;\n(b) with a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres with any spherical power.\nH\n£147.50\n9 Glasses not falling within any of paragraphs 1 to 8 for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by an NHS trust.\nI\n£147.50\n10 Contact lenses for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by an NHS trust.\nJ\n£42.00", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.1999) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/609), reg. 1(1), Sch. Pt. 1" } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2009/409", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Amendments Relating to Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 2009" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/479", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2001/749", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2001" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2001/1362", "affecting_title": "National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2007/542", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2007" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2023/1047", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2023" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2000/594", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2000" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2015/603", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2015" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2000/978", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (Wales) Regulations 2000" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2016/305", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2016" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2003/657", "affecting_title": "National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment Regulations 2003" }, { "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": "sum substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/642", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2005/483", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2006/1749", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2006" }, { "type": "omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2008/553", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment Regulations 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"wsi/2005/1630", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2007/1048", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2007" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2008/660", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2008" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2009/589", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Amendments relating to Optical Charges and Payments) (Wales) Regulations 2009" }, { "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": "words substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2012/684", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment)(Wales) Regulations 2012" }, { "type": "word substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2014/462", "affecting_title": "National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2014" }, { "type": "sum substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2002/917", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2002/547", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2002" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2025/1119", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "wsi/2025/136", "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2025" } ], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/818/schedule/1", "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." }