{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/424",
  "legislation_title": "Optical Charges and Payments (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Optical Charges and Payments (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 7th October 1996.\n(2) In these regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Optical Charges and Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1989 No. 114; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1991 No. 496, S.R. 1992 No. 155, S.R. 1994 Nos. 31 and 388, and S.R. 1995 Nos. 16, 114 and 358"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/424/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:42.350240+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."
}