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Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 396

The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1989

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1989 No. 396

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1989

Made8th March 1989
Laid before Parliament10th March 1989
Coming into force1st April 1989


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART I
General
1. Citation, commencement and interpretation
PART II
Charges
2. Charges for glasses and contact lenses
PART III
Payments towards cost of sight tests
3. Eligibility—sight tests
4. Completion and use of voucher—sight tests
5. Payments to sight testers
6. Payments to patients in respect of sight tests
7. Redemption value of voucher for sight test
PART IV
Payments for cost of supply of optical appliances
8. Eligibility—supply of optical appliances
9. Issue of vouchers by ophthalmic medical practitioners or opticians
10. Issue of vouchers by Family Practitioner Committees
11. Issue of vouchers by health authorities
12. Use of vouchers for supply of optical appliances
13. Payments to suppliers
14. Payments to patients in health authority cases
15. Redemption value of voucher for supply of optical appliances
PART V
Payments for cost of replacement or repair of optical appliances
16. Eligibility—replacement or repair
17. Completion of vouchers for replacement or repair
18. Use of vouchers for replacement or repair
19. Payments to suppliers for replacement or repair
20. Redemption value of voucher for replacement or repair
PART VI
Miscellaneous
21. Amounts wrongly paid
22. Signatures
23. Revocations

 SCHEDULE 1— Voucher letter codes and face values—supply and replacement

 SCHEDULE 2— Prisms, tints, photochromic lenses, small and special glasses and complex appliances

 SCHEDULE 3— Voucher values—repair

 SCHEDULE 4— Regulations revoked

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