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

Regulations 1(2) and (3), 9(2)a), 10(2)(a), 16(2)(a) and (3)(a)

[F1 SCHEDULE 1 S VOUCHER LETTER CODES AND FACE VALUES – SUPPLY AND REPLACEMENT

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.1999) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/748), regs. 1, 12(1), Sch. Pt. I

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Type of optical appliance	Letter code	Face value of voucher
1.   Glasses with single vision lenses of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres;	A	[F2 £35.50 ]
2.   Glasses with single vision lenses– (a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres; (b) of a spherical power of less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres.	B	[F2 £54.00 ]
3.   Glasses with single vision lenses of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;	C	[F2 £79.00 ]
4.   Glasses with single vision lenses– (a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power; (b) of a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres with any spherical power.	D	[F2 £178.40 ]
5.   Glasses with bifocal lenses of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres;	E	[F2 £61.40 ]
6.   Glasses with bifocal lenses– (a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres; (b) of a spherical power less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres.	F	[F2 £78.10 ]
7.   Glasses with bifocal lenses of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;	G	[F2 £101.20 ]
8.   Glasses with prism-controlled bifocal lenses of any power or with bifocal lenses– (a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power; (b) with a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres with any spherical power.	H	[F2 £196.10 ]
9.   Glasses not falling within any of paragraphs 1 to 8 for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by F3 ... [F4 a Health Board].	I	[F2 £182.70 ]
10.   Contact lenses for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by F3 ... [F4 a Health Board].	J	[F2 £51.90]]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sum in Sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2008) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/106), regs. 1(1), 2(4) (with reg. 3)

F3 Words in sch. 1 omitted (5.10.1999) by virtue of The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1999 (S.S.I. 1999/64), regs. 1, 8 (with reg. 10)

F4 Words in sch. 1 substituted (1.4.2004) by The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/168), regs. 1(2), 2(8)