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Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation)(1), the following definitions are inserted in the appropriate places in alphabetical order–

“day centre” means an establishment attended by patients and accepted by the Health Board or primary care NHS trust as suitable for the provision of general ophthalmic services in the appropriate part of the Board’s area for those patients who would have difficulty in obtaining such services from practice premises because of physical or mental illness or disability or because of difficulties in communicating their health needs unaided;;

“mobile practice” means a contractor who does not have practice premises in the appropriate part of the Board’s area but who has undertaken to provide general ophthalmic services at a day or residential centre in that part of the Board’s area;;

“residential centre” means an establishment in the appropriate part of the Board’s area for patients who normally reside in that establishment and who are unable to leave the establishment unaccompanied because of physical or mental illness or disability;.

(1)

Regulation 2 was amended by S.I. 1988/543, 1989/387, 1991/534, 1992/531, 1995/704, 1996/2353 and 843 and 1999/725 and S.S.I. 1999/55.