{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-amendment-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-amendment-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/134",
  "legislation_title": "The Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-amendment-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No. 2) Regulations 1989",
  "text": "(1) The Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No. 2) Regulations 1989 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3(1), for “paragraph (2)” substitute “paragraphs (2) and (3)”.\n(3) After regulation 3(2), insert–\n“(3) In Scotland, the provisions of paragraphs (1)(b)(ii) do not apply where the doctor or optometrist refers the patient to an ophthalmic hospital, in accordance with paragraph 14(4) of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2006.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1230 as amended by S.I. 2005/480, 848 and 1481."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "There are amendments to regulation 3 which are not relevant to Scotland."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2006/135."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/134/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:45.663948+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."
}