Regulations and Statutory Instruments

Please click here for a link to all published Statutory Instruments from 1987 onwards. Since June 2004 onwards an Explanatory Memorandum, setting out a brief statement of the purpose of an instrument and providing information about its policy objective and policy implications, has been produced to accompany any Statutory Instrument or Draft Statutory Instrument laid before Parliament. The aim is to publish these documents simultaneously with their publication in printed form.

Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 642 (S.23)

The 'consolidated' Statutory Instrument covering the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1998, which includes all subsequent amendments to end of May 2011, is available in pdf format at the end of this page.

Statutory Instrument 2006 No 135

The 'consolidated' National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2006, which includes all subsequent amendments to August 2010, is available in pdf format at the end of this page.

Practice Inspection Criteria (2007)

For guidance and a national checklist covering practice inspections, please see the pdf at the end of this page. NHS Boards are asked to inspect existing premises from which general ophthalmic services are provided on a 3 year rolling-programme basis. Boards are also asked to inspect, before allowing an optometrist/ophthalmic medical practitioner onto the Board’s ophthalmic list, premises where general ophthalmic services will be provided for the first time.