Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information
[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Multidatabase Search] [Help] [Feedback]
United Kingdom Statutory Instruments
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Statutory Instruments >> The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1994 No. 2619
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_reg/1994/uksi_19942619_en.html
[New search] [Help]
Statutory Instruments
1994 No. 2619
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1994
Made
10th October 1994
Laid before Parliament
11th October 1994
Coming into force
1st November 1994
he Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on her by section 126(4) of, and paragraph 2A of Schedule 12 to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:-
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st November 1994.
Amendment of regulation 1 of the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1989
2. In regulation 1(2) of the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1989(2) (interpretation), in paragraph (b) of the definition of "NHS sight test fee", for "£12.92" there is substituted "£13.15".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Gerald Malone
Minister of State
Department of Health
10th October 1994
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1989, which provide for payments to be made by means of a voucher system in respect of costs incurred by certain categories of persons in connection with the supply, replacement and repair of optical appliances.
Regulation 2 further amends the definition of "NHS sight test fee" in regulation 1(2) of the 1989 Regulations by increasing by approximately 1.78% the amount by which entitlement to assistance towards the cost of a private sight test (other than one carried out at a place where the patient normally resides), and the value of a voucher towards such cost or towards the supply (in certain circumstances) of glasses or contact lenses, is calculated
1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) ("the 1990 Act"), section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations". Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2). Paragraph 2A of Schedule 12 was inserted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 1, Part I, paragraph 3 and amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 13(2) and (3).