The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2006

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Charges Regulations

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

3.  In regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Charges Regulations—

(a)in the definition of “prescription form”, at the end of the definition, insert “and includes a prescription form provided and issued under equivalent arrangements having effect in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland;”; and

(b)in the definition of “supplementary prescriber” after paragraph (a)(iv) insert—

(v)the register of optometrists maintained by the General Optical Council in pursuance of section 7 (register of opticians) of the Opticians Act 1989(1); and.

(1)

1989 (c. 44). Section 7 was amended by S.I. 2005/848.