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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-2013/schedule-1",
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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": "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£42.40\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£64.26\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£94.14\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£212.40\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£73.10\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£92.72\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£120.48\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£233.56\n9 Glasses not falling within any of paragraphs 1 to 8 for which a prescription is given in consequence of a sight test by an NHS trust or NHS foundation trust.\nI\n£217.58\n10 A contact lens for which a prescription is given in consequence of a sight test by an NHS trust or NHS foundation trust.\nJ\n£61.77",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(d) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(e) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(f) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(g) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(h) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(i) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/294), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(j) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:37.087843+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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