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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-18.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": "schedule/1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "The Sale of Optical Appliances Order of Council 1984",
  "text": "In the Sale of Optical Appliances Order of Council 1984—\n(a) in article 1(2)(interpretation), in the definition of “registered blind or partially sighted”, for sub-paragraph (b), substitute—\n“(b) in a register maintained by or on behalf of a council constituted under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994, or”; and\n(b) in article 3 (conditions subject to which a sale is exempt)—\n(i) in paragraph (1), for the words “or registered optician” substitute “, registered optometrist or registered dispensing optician”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (2)(a)(i), for the words “ophthalmic optician” substitute “optometrist”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 18 comes into force in accordance with art. 1(3)-(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/1778."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/848/schedule/1/paragraph/18",
    "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."
}