This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct an omission in S.I. 1999/2562 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

1999 No. 2714

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 38(1), (3), (4) and (6) and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 19771 hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 4th October 1999.

2

In these Regulations “the 1999 Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) Regulations 19992.

Amendment of the 1999 Regulations2

In regulation 3 of the 1999 Regulations (amendment of the 1986 Regulations), after paragraph (2)(d) there shall be added—

e

in paragraph (3)(c) for “disability working allowance” there shall be substituted “disabled person’s tax credit”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Denham,Minister of State,Department of Health

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations correct an omission in the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) and (General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations”). The 1999 Regulations make changes consequent upon the replacement of family credit and disability working allowance by working families' tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit to the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations 1986, which provide for the arrangements under which ophthalmic medical practitioners and ophthalmic opticians provide ophthalmic services.

These Regulations are being issued free of charge to all known recipients of the 1999 Regulations.