The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Amendment of regulation I of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “complex appliance”—

(i) in sub-paragraph (b) for “lens;” there is substituted “lens, or”; and

(ii) after sub-paragraph (b) there is added the following sub-paragraph:—

“(c) is a prism-controlled bifocal lens;”;

(b) for the definition of “responsible Board” there is substituted the following definition:—

““responsible authority” means—

(a) in relation to a voucher completed pursuant to regulation 4, the Health Board for the area in which the testing of sight to which it relates takes place;

(b) in relation to a voucher issued pursuant to regulation 9 or regulation 10 or completed pursuant to regulation 17, the Health Board for the area in which the supply, replacement or repair of the optical appliance to which it relates takes or is to take place;

(c) in relation to a voucher issued pursuant to regulation 11 or completed pursuant to regulation 17 by a Health Board, the Health Board which issues or completes it;

(d) in relation to a voucher issued pursuant to regulation 11 or completed pursuant to regulation 17 by an NHS trust(1), the Health Board in whose area the patient resides;”; and

(c) in the definition of “voucher”, in sub-paragraph (b) after the words “Health Board” in each place where they occur in heads (i) and (ii) there are inserted the words “or NHS trust”.

(1)

See for the definition of “NHS trust” section 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), Schedule 9, paragraph 19(22)(c).