Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 495

The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1994

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1994 No. 495

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1994

The 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, commencement and interpretation
    1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

    (2)  In these Regulations, "the principal Regulations" means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1989^[2].

Amendment of regulation 20 of the principal Regulations
    2.    In regulation 20 of the principal Regulations (redemption value of voucher for replacement or repair)—
 (a) in paragraph (1)(b), for "£36.90" there is substituted "£37.80"; and
 (b) in paragraph (3), for "£9.20" there is substituted "£9.60".

Amendment of Schedules to the principal Regulations
    3.—(1)  In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations^[3] (voucher letter codes and face values — supply and replacement), in column 3 (face value of voucher), for each amount specified in column 1 of the Table below there is substituted the amount specified in relation to it in column 2 of that Table.
TABLE

Column 1	Column 2
Old Amount	New Amount
£24.40	£25.50
£38.40	£39.30
£52.40	£53.60
£102.80	£105.20
£42.10	£44.00
£55.50	£56.80
£66.80	£68.40
£113.00 (in both places where it appears)	£115.70
£36.90	£37.80



    (2)  In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (prisms, tints, photochromic lenses, small and special glasses and complex appliances)—
 (a) in paragraph 1(1)(a) (prism — single vision lens), for "£4.70" there is substituted "£4.90";
 (b) in paragraph 1(1)(b) (prism — other lens), for "£5.90" there is substituted "£6.10";
 (c) in paragraph 1(1)(c) (single vision tinted lens), for "£2.40" there is substituted "£2.50";
 (d) in paragraph 1(1)(d) (other tinted lens), for "£2.90" there is substituted "£3.00";
 (e) in paragraph 1(1)(e) (small glasses)—
 (i) in sub-head (i), for "£40.50" there is substituted "£42.10",
 (ii) in sub-head (ii), for "£36.00" there is substituted "£37.40", and
 (iii) in sub-head (iii), for "£19.40" there is substituted "£20.20";
 (f) in paragraph 1(1)(f) (photochromic lenses), for "£2.40" there is substituted "£2.50" and for "£2.90" there is substituted "£3.00";
 (g) in paragraph 1(1)(g) (specially manufactured frame), for "£40.50" there is substituted "£42.10";
 (h) in paragraph 2(a) (minimum complex appliance payment — single vision lenses), for "£4.10" there is substituted "£4.20"; and
 (i) in paragraph 2(b) (minimum complex appliance payment — other lenses), for "£22.20" there is substituted "£22.70".

    (3)  For Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (voucher values — repair)^[4] there is substituted the Schedule 3 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Application of these Regulations
    4.    The amendments made by these Regulations apply only in relation to a voucher—
 (a) accepted or used pursuant to regulation 12 or regulation 18 of the principal Regulations on or after 1st April 1994; or
 (b) provided to a health authority pursuant to regulation 14(2)(c) of the principal Regulations in respect of cost incurred on or after that date.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Brian Mawhinney

Minister of State, Department of Health

2nd March 1994

[1] 1977 c. 49; seesection 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 26(2)(g) and (i) for the definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations". Section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, 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). back

[2] S.I. 1989/396, amended by S.I. 1990/495, 1991/583, 1991/1680, 1991/2465, 1992/404, 1993/418 and 1994/131. back

[3] Schedule 1 was substituted by regulation 4 of S.I. 1992/404. back

[4] Schedule 3 was last substituted by S.I. 1993/418. back

Explanatory Note