{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-payments-for-optical-appliances-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/428",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-payments-for-optical-appliances-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.\n(2) In these regulations, “the principal regulations” means the National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) Regulations 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/976, amended by S.I. 1986/1136."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/428/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:10:21.828865+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."
}