
2003 No. 424
HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES
Optical Charges and Payments and General Ophthalmic Services (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Made 26th September 2003
Coming into operation 6th October 2003
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 62, 98, 106 and 107(6) of, and Schedule 15 to, the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, and after consultation with such organisations as appeared to the Department to be representative of medical practitioners practising as ophthalmic medical practitioners, and ophthalmic opticians, as required by Article 62(3) of the said Order, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Optical Charges and Payments and General Ophthalmic Services (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 6th October 2003.
(2) In these regulations –
 “the Optical Regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997; and
 “the Ophthalmic Regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986.
Amendment of the Optical Regulations
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(1) The Optical Regulations are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2), after the definition of “patients resources” there is inserted –“
 “pension credit guarantee credit” shall be construed in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002;”
(3) In regulation 8 (eligibility – supply of optical appliances) –
(a) in paragraph (3), after sub-paragraph (l), there is inserted –“
(m) he is receiving pension credit guarantee credit or is a member of the same family as a person who is receiving pension credit guarantee credit.”; and
(b) in paragraph (4), in sub-paragraph (a) (definition of family), for “sub-paragraphs (b) and (f)”, there is substituted “sub-paragraphs (b), (f) and (m)”.
Amendment of the Ophthalmic Regulations
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Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 26th September 2003.
Dr. J. F. Livingstone
Senior Officer of the
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 26th September 2003.
Jack Layberry
Senior Officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
