{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 11 of the principal Regulations (issue of replacement vouchers by the Agency or an HSS trust) substitute the following regulation—\n“Issue of replacement vouchers by the Agency or an HSS trust\n11 Where, on an application by a patient within 2 years of a voucher having been issued to him under regulation 9(1) or 10(1), the Agency or HSS trust is satisfied, having made such enquiries as it considers relevant, that the voucher has been lost or destroyed without having been presented to a supplier of optical appliances, it may authorise an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician to issue to the patient a replacement voucher completed in accordance with regulation 9(2)(a) and (b) or 10(2)(a) and (b), but with the date of issue of the voucher being that on which the replacement is issued.”.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}