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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Eligibility for a voucher — sight tests",
  "text": "(1) A payment must be made as provided for by this Part to contribute towards the cost of a sight test which NHS England accepts as having been incurred by an eligible person.\n(2) An eligible person is a person whose income resources, as calculated in accordance with Part 4 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Remission Regulations, exceed their requirements as so calculated, but whose patient contribution does not exceed the NHS sight test fee and whose capital resources as so calculated do not exceed the capital limit.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/461/regulation/3",
    "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."
}