{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1481",
  "legislation_title": "The Contact Lens (Specification) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duty to provide Contact Lens Specification",
  "text": "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 1989, it shall contain the following particulars—\n(a) the name and address of the individual;\n(b) if the individual has not attained the age of sixteen on the day the specification is issued, his date of birth;\n(c) the name of that practitioner and his registration number in the General Medical Council’s register of registered medical practitioners;\n(d) the address from which that practitioner practises;\n(e) the name of the practice on whose premises the fitting was done;\n(f) the date the fitting was completed;\n(g) sufficient details of any lens fitted to enable a person who fits or supplies a contact lens to replicate the lens;\n(h) the date the specification expires; and\nsuch information of a clinical nature as that practitioner considers to be necessary in the particular case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 25(5) was added by S.I. 2005/848."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1481/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:58:09.734285+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}