The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1998

Payments to suppliers

13.—(1) Except where it was the supplier, the responsible authority shall, if the conditions specified in paragraph (2) are fulfilled, make a payment of a voucher’s redemption value to a supplier who has accepted the voucher from a patient in accordance with regulation 12.

(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that–

(a) the patient has signed the declaration and undertaking referred to in regulation 12(4) and acknowledged receipt on the voucher of the optical appliance supplied to him;

(b) the optical appliance is not sold or supplied in contravention of section 21(1) of the Optician’s Act 1989(1); and

(c) the supplier has–

(i) made and kept a written record of the supply and issued to the patient a receipt for any money received from the patient;

(ii) made a claim for a payment on a duly completed voucher to the responsible authority, within the period of 3 months beginning with the date of supply of the optical appliance;

(iii) where the patient has shown a notice of entitlement to him, informed the responsible authority of the amount of the patient’s contribution, if any; and

(iv) where the claim relates to a voucher the value of which is increased in accordance with paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 3, certified that the glasses supplied were small glasses.

(1)

1989 c. 44.