The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 2013

Payments to suppliers

14.—(1) The Board must, if the conditions specified in paragraph (2) are met, make a payment of a voucher’s redemption value to a supplier who has accepted the voucher from a person in accordance with regulation 12.

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

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

(b) the optical appliance is not sold or supplied in contravention of section 27(1) of the Opticians Act 1989(1) (sale and supply of optical appliances); and

(c) the supplier has—

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

(ii) made a claim for a payment on a completed voucher to the Board within three months of the date of the supply of the optical appliance;

(iii) where the person has shown a notice of entitlement to the supplier, informed the Board of the amount of the patient 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 2, certified that the glasses supplied were small glasses.

(1)

1989 c.44. Section 27(1) of the Opticians Act 1989 was amended by S.I. 2005/848.