{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989/section-34.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/44",
  "legislation_title": "Opticians Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Subordinate legislation procedure.",
  "text": "(1) Rules made by the Council under this Act ... shall not come into force until approved by order of the Privy Council.\n(1A) Subsection (1) above shall not apply to rules made under section 10 above in so far as they relate to fees.\n(2) The Privy Council may approve rules under section 23C above either in the form submitted to them or subject to such modifications as appear to the Privy Council requisite.\n(3) Where the Privy Council propose to approve any such rules ... subject to modifications, they shall notify to the Council the modifications they propose to make and consider any observations of the Council on them.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The powers—\n(a) of the Privy Council to make orders under this Act;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) of the Secretary of State to make regulations under section 25 or 26 above,\nshall be exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(6) Subject to subsection (7) below, a statutory instrument containing—\n(a) an order of the Privy Council to which this subsection applies; or\n(b) regulations made by the Secretary of State under section 25 or 26 above,\nshall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(7) Subsection (6) above applies to the following orders of the Privy Council—\n(a) an order approving rules under section 4, 5 or 31 above ...; and\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) an order under section 1(4) or 27.\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) The power of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland to make regulations under section 25 or 26 above shall be exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979; and any such regulations shall be subject to negative resolution within the meaning of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(1) omitted (1.4.2009) by virtue of The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1774), art. 1(4), Sch. 2 para. 4(a); S.I. 2008/3150, art. 2(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 34(1A) inserted (22.3.2005) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(2) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 34(2) substituted (22.3.2005) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(3) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(3) omitted (22.3.2005) by virtue of The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(4) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 34(4) omitted (22.3.2005) by virtue of The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(6) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 34(5)(b) omitted (22.3.2005) by virtue of The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(6) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(5)(c) substituted (22.3.2005) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(5) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(6)(b) substituted (22.3.2005) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(5) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(7)(a) omitted (1.4.2009) by virtue of The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1774), art. 1(4), Sch. 2 para. 4(b)(i); S.I. 2008/3150, art. 2(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 34(7)(b) omitted (1.4.2009) by virtue of The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1774), art. 1(4), Sch. 2 para. 4(b)(ii); S.I. 2008/3150, art. 2(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 34(7)(c) substituted (9.7.2008 for specified purposes, 1.4.2009 in so far as not already in force) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1774), art. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 4(b)(iii); S.I. 2008/3150, art. 2(3)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 34(8) omitted (22.3.2005) by virtue of The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(6) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 34(9) omitted (22.3.2005) by virtue of The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(6) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(10) substituted (22.3.2005) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), arts. 1(2), 25(5) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979 No. 1573 (N.I. 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1954 c.33 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/14",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/44/section/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:44:45.355543+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}