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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/458",
  "legislation_title": "Optical Charges and Payments (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "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) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 10th November 1997.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Optical Charges and Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 10.11.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1997 No. 191"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/458/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:39.292236+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."
}