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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-payments-for-optical-appliances-amendment-no-4-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1935",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-payments-for-optical-appliances-amendment-no-4-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) Regulations 1986 which provide for payments to be made, by means of a voucher system, in respect of the cost of optical appliances supplied to certain categories of persons following a sight test under the National Health Service in England and Wales.\nThe amendments made by regulation 2 concern the inclusion in the voucher of a supplement for the cost of unusually small glasses, typically for very young children. They alter the type of glasses which qualify for the supplement from glasses prescribed for a person whose pupils are not more than 60 millimetres apart to glasses with lens apertures the datum centres of which are not more than 56 millimetres apart (“small glasses”). Regulation 2(2) makes it a condition of payment that where the claim for payment is increased by the supplement, the supplier must certify that the glasses supplied are small glasses.\nRegulation 3 provides that the amendments are not to affect the value of vouchers issued before the coming into force of these Regulations.\nBritish Standard 3521: 1962, referred to in regulation 2(1) of these Regulations, may be obtained from any of the sales outlets operated by the British Standards Institution or direct by post from the Institution at Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1935/note",
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  "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."
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