
2004 No. 113
HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES
Optical Charges and Payments and General Ophthalmic Services (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004
Made 15th March 2004
Coming into operation 6th April 2004
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) 2004 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2004.
(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 provided by paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2), after the definition of “replacement” there is inserted –“
 “severe disability element” means severe disability element of working tax credit specified in section 11(6)(d) of the Tax Credits Act 2002”.
(3) In regulation 8 (eligibility – supply of optical appliances), in paragraph (3)(k)(i)(bb) after “disability element” there is inserted “or severe disability element”.
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 15th March 2004.
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 15th March 2004.
Ciaran Doran
Senior Officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
