Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES
Made
27 March 2007
Coming into force
1 April 2007
The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 129 and 203(9) and (10) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006(1).
1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 and they come into force on 1 April 2007.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
(3) In these Regulations “the Optical Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997(2).
2. In regulation 19 (redemption value of voucher for replacement or repair)—
(a) in paragraph (1)(b), for “£49.20” substitute “£50.50”; and
(b) in paragraph (3), for “£12.70” substitute “£13.00”.
3.—(1) In Schedule 1 to the Optical Regulations (voucher letter codes and face values-supply and replacement) in column (3) of the table (face value of voucher), for each amount specified in column (1) of the table below substitute the amount specified in relation to it in column (2) of the table below.
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| Old amount | New amount |
| £33.70 | £34.60 |
| £51.20 | £52.60 |
| £74.90 | £76.90 |
| £169.10 | £173.70 |
| £58.20 | £59.80 |
| £74.00 | £76.00 |
| £95.90 | £98.50 |
| £185.90 | £190.90 |
| £173.20 | £177.90 |
| £49.20 | £50.50 |
(2) In Schedule 2 to the Optical Regulations (prisms, tints, photochromic lenses, small and special glasses and complex appliances)—
(a) in paragraph 1(1)(a), for “£11.00” substitute “£11.30”;
(b) in paragraph (1)(1)(b), for “£13.10” substitute “£13.50”;
(c) in paragraph 1(1)(c), for “£3.70” substitute “£3.80”;
(d) in paragraph 1(1)(d), for “£4.20” substitute “£4.30”;
(e) in paragraph 1(1)(e), for “£55.50”, “£49.20” and “£26.60” substitute “£57.00”, “£50.50” and “£27.30” respectively;
(f) in paragraph 1(1)(g), for “£55.50” substitute “£57.00”;
(g) in paragraph 2(a), for “£12.70” substitute “£13.00”; and
(h) in paragraph 2(b), for “£32.10” substitute “£33.00”.
(3) For Schedule 3 to the Optical Regulations (voucher values-repair), substitute the Schedule 3 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
4. The amounts substituted by regulations 2 and 3 will apply only in relation to a voucher accepted or used pursuant to regulation 12 or regulation 17 of the Optical Regulations on or after 1 April 2007.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(3)
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
27 March 2007
Regulation 3(3)
Regulation 19(2) and (3)
| (1) | (2) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature of Repair | Letter of Codes — Values | ||||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Repair or replacement of one lens | 10.80 | 19.80 | 31.95 | 80.35 | 23.40 | 31.50 | 42.75 | 88.95 | 82.45 |
| Repair or replacement of two lenses | 21.60 | 39.60 | 63.90 | 160.70 | 46.80 | 63.00 | 85.50 | 177.90 | 164.90 |
| Repair or replacement of: | |||||||||
| The front of a frame | 11.05 | 11.05 | 11.05 | 11.05 | 11.05 | 11.05 | 11.05 | 11.05 | 11.05 |
| A side of a frame | 6.55 | 6.55 | 6.55 | 6.55 | 6.55 | 6.55 | 6.55 | 6.55 | 6.55 |
| The whole frame | 13.00 | 13.00 | 13.00 | 13.00 | 13.00 | 13.00 | 13.00 | 13.00 | 13.00.” |
2006 c. 42. References in the Act to “Welsh Ministers” are to have effect until the end of the initial period, within the meaning of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), as references to the National Assembly for Wales, constituted by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), by virtue of section 5 of and paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43). Back [1]
S.I. 1997/818 as amended. Back [2]