The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2003

Amendment of the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1998

2.—(1) The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1998(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) after the definition of “patient’s resources” insert ““pension credit guarantee credit” means state pension credit guarantee credit as construed in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002(2);”.

(3) In regulation 8 (eligibility–supply of optical appliances)–

(a) in paragraph (3), after sub-paragraph (l) insert–

“(m) he is in receipt of pension credit guarantee credit; or

(n) he is a member of the same family as a person described in sub-paragraph (m) of this paragraph.”; and

(b) in paragraph (4), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute–

“(a) in sub-paragraphs (b), (f) and (n), “family” has the meaning given to it by section 137(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(3), as it applies to income support;”.

(1)

S.I. 1998/642; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/748 and S.S.I. 2000/45 and 395, 2001/88, 2002/17 and 2002/224 and 2003/218.

(2)

2002 c. 16.

(3)

1992 c. 4.