Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Optical Charges and Payments (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation—

(a)

except for regulation 2, on 1st April 2001; and

(b)

regulation 2 on 10th April 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations—

“the principal Regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997^f1.

Annotations

f1: S.R. 1997 No. 191; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1999 Nos. 111 and 394 and S.R. 2000 No. 51