{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Eligibility — sight tests",
  "text": "(1) A payment shall be made as provided for by this Part to contribute to the cost of a testing of sight which the Agency accepts as having been incurred by an eligible person.\n(2) An eligible person is a person whose income resources, as calculated in accordance with regulation 6 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Remission Regulations for the purposes of remission of charges under the Order, exceed his requirements as so calculated, but whose patient’s contribution does not exceed the sight test fee and whose capital resources as so calculated do not exceed the capital limit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}