{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/111",
  "legislation_title": "Optical Charges and Payments (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 1 of the principal Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (2), in the definition of “health service sight test fee” for the amount “£39·04” substitute “£40·33” and for the amount “£14·10” substitute “£14·57”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), for the definition “small glasses” substitute—\n““small glasses” means glasses—\n(a) prescribed for a child who is under the age of 7 years at the date of issue of a voucher relating to those glasses where the voucher is issued on the same occasion as the prescription relating to those glasses is issued;\n(b) having a frame which is either custom made or a stock frame requiring extensive adaptation to ensure an adequate fit; and\n(c) having a boxed centre distance of no more than 55 millimetres, and for this purpose “box centre” is to be construed in accordance with Part 1 of British Standard 3521/91 (Terms relating to ophthalmic optics and spectacles frames) published by the British Standards Institution as effective immediately before 1st April 1999;”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (3), before “where” insert “subject to sub-paragraph (bb),”;\n(d) after sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (3), insert the following sub-paragraph—\n“(bb) where an optical appliance has a bifocal lens, the reading segment of which is more than 4 dioptres more powerful than the distance segment, the power of the lens shall be determined according to the power of the reading segment; and”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/111/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:20:37.432267+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."
}