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Legislation

Set out below is the devolved (Scotland) and reserved (UK) primary and secondary legislation relevant to the provision of General Ophthalmic Services (GOS) eye examinations and NHS optical vouchers in Scotland.

Devolved (Scotland) - primary legislation:

• National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, c.29, as amended *
• Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005, asp.13 *
• Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016, asp.14 (Duty of Candour) *

Devolved (Scotland) – secondary legislation and the Statement:

• The Optometry Enhanced Services (Glaucoma) (Scotland) Directions 2023 (issued 29 September 2023)
• Statement of remuneration for GOS and Continuing Professional Development allowances (issued 23 October 2024)
• The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2006, SSI 2006/135, as amended *
• The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1998, SI 1998/642, as amended *
• The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Regulations 1989, SI 1989/364, as amended *
• The National Health Service (Discipline Committees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006, SSI 2006/330, as amended *

Reserved (UK) - primary legislation:

• Opticians Act 1989, c.44, as amended *

Reserved (UK) - secondary legislation:

• The General Optical Council (Rules relating to Injury or Disease of the Eye) Order of Council 1999, SI 1999/3267, as amended *

• The Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No. 2) Regulations 1989, SI 1989/1230, as amended *
• The General Optical Council (Testing of Sight by Persons Training as Ophthalmic Opticians Rules) Order of Council 1994, SI 1994/70,
  as amended *
• The General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules Order of Council 2021, SI 2021/1234 *

* - Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The legislation.gov.uk website may not initially display the most up-to-date version of this legislation. To find out what amendments have been made to a specific piece of legislation:

• Access the legislation by clicking on one of the above links or finding it via the search tool on the legislation.gov.uk website
• Select ‘More Resources’ from the menu bar (to the right of ‘Content’)
• Select the ‘Affecting [Full name of legislation]’ link under the ‘List of all changes’ section.

This will then display a full history of the amendments made to this legislation, which can be sorted in various different ways.