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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-scotland-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/73",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-optical-charges-and-payments-scotland-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 and come into force on 1st April 2012.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/642; amended by S.I. 1999/748, S.S.I. 1999/64, 2000/45 and 395, 2001/88, 2002/17, 86 and 224, 2003/200, 218 and 431, 2004/97 and 168, 2005/119, 2006/138, 2007/192, 2008/106 and 289, 2009/86 and 288 and 2011/55."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/73/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:45:10.763788+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."
}