{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/848",
  "legislation_title": "The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Rules",
  "text": "After section 31 insert—\n“Rules\n31A. Any power to make rules under this Act may be exercised—\n(a) so as to make different provision with respect to different cases or different classes of cases or different provisions in respect of the same case or class of case for different purposes of this Act; and in particular different provisions may be made in respect of optometrists and dispensing opticians;\n(b) either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions; or\n(c) so as to make any supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision which the Council considers necessary or expedient.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 22 in force at 22.3.2005, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/848/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:02:10.599022+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."
}