# The Contact Lens (Specification) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2005, 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 1989, it shall contain the following particulars—
(a) the name and address of the individual;
(b) if the individual has not attained the age of sixteen on the day the specification is issued, his date of birth;
(c) the name of that practitioner and his registration number in the General Medical Council’s register of registered medical practitioners;
(d) the address from which that practitioner practises;
(e) the name of the practice on whose premises the fitting was done;
(f) the date the fitting was completed;
(g) sufficient details of any lens fitted to enable a person who fits or supplies a contact lens to replicate the lens;
(h) 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1481/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-2
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