The National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1425
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st September 1988.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 1986 .

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

(1) For each amount specified in column 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations, where that amount appears in column 3 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations in relation to the letter code specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations and again in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations, there shall be substituted the amount specified in column 3 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(2) In the Notes in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (concerning prisms, tints, photochromic lenses, special glasses and complex appliances), in paragraph 1(e) and in paragraph 1(g) for “£30.00” there shall be in each case be substituted “31.50”

Section 3 Application of Regulations

The increases effected by these Regulations apply only in relation to vouchers accepted pursuant to regulation 6 of the principal Regulations on or after 1st September 1988 or sent to a responsible Board pursuant to regulation 8(2)(c) of the principal Regulations in respect of cost incurred on or after that date; and for the purposes of those Regulations the redemption value of the voucher so accepted before that date or so sent in respect of cost incurred before that date shall be determined according to its face value when it was accepted or when the cost was incurred.

Section 4 Revocations

Regulation 5(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Health Service (Payments for Optical Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988 are hereby revoked.