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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st November 1996.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1989.
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In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) in the definition of “NHS sight test fee”–
(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for “£36.65” there is substituted “£37.83”; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (b) for “£13.41” there is substituted “£13.71”.
George Kynoch
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
8th October 1996