{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/191",
  "legislation_title": "Optical Charges and Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Redemption value of voucher for supply of optical appliances",
  "text": "(1) Where an optical appliance was supplied otherwise than under the Order the redemption value of a voucher is, subject to paragraphs (3) to (5), the lesser of—\n(a) the full cost which would have been payable by the patient for the supply but for this Part;\n(b) the face value of the voucher.\n(2) Where an optical appliance was supplied under the Order, the redemption value of a voucher is, subject to paragraphs (3) to (5), the lesser of—\n(a) the amount of the charge pursuant to regulation 2 which would have been payable by the patient for the supply but for this Part;\n(b) the face value of the voucher.\n(3) In relation to payments to be made because of a person’s eligibility by virtue of regulation 8(2)(d), the amounts taken for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and (b) or paragraph (2)(a) and (b) shall, subject to paragraph (4), be reduced by the amount of the patient’s contribution.\n(4) If a reduction made under paragraph (3) in the case of a patient for whom a prescription was issued for a complex appliance would render the redemption value of the voucher less than the minimum complex appliance payment, that value shall be the minimum complex appliance payment.\n(5) Where the patient was an eligible person only because a prescription was issued for him for a complex appliance, the redemption value of a voucher shall be the minimum complex appliance payment, except that where—\n(a) the appliance was supplied under the Order; and\n(b) in accordance with regulation 2(1), the amount of charge made for the supply under Schedule 15 to the Order would, but for any maximum charge specified in that regulation, have exceeded by any amount the charge actually made,\nthe redemption value shall be reduced by the amount of the excess.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in operation at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/191/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:24.143933+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."
}