Regulation 2 Duty to provide Contact Lens Specification
Where a registered medical practitioner issues a specification to an individual to whom he has fitted a contact lens, pursuant to section 25(5) of the Opticians Act 1989f1, it shall contain the following particulars—
the name and address of the individual;
if the individual has not attained the age of sixteen on the day the specification is issued, his date of birth;
the name of that practitioner and his registration number in the General Medical Council’s register of registered medical practitioners;
the address from which that practitioner practises;
the name of the practice on whose premises the fitting was done;
the date the fitting was completed;
sufficient details of any lens fitted to enable a person who fits or supplies a contact lens to replicate the lens;
the date the specification expires; and
such information of a clinical nature as that practitioner considers to be necessary in the particular case.
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Section 25(5) was added by S.I. 2005/848.