{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-28",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/461",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Transitional Provisions",
  "text": "(1) Where, before 1st April 2013, a person was issued with a voucher pursuant to regulations 9, 10, 11 or 16 of the 1997 Regulations, but that voucher has not been accepted before that date, such a voucher may be accepted in accordance with the provisions of the 1997 Regulations as though they remained in force.\n(2) The amounts specified in regulation 20(1)(b) and (3), column 3 of Schedule 1, and Schedules 2 and 3 shall apply only to a voucher accepted on or after 1st April 2013 pursuant to regulation 12 or 18.\n(3) Where, before 1st April 2013, a person made a claim for payment under regulation 6 or 20 of the 1997 Regulations, but that claim has not been determined before that date, the claim must be determined in accordance with the provisions of the 1997 Regulations as though they remained in force.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (3), references to the responsible authority in the 1997 Regulations shall be taken as a reference to NHS England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/461/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:37.087843+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."
}