Regulation 3 Amendment of the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations 1986

(1)

The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations 1986^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a)

for the definition of “corporate optician”, substitute—

““corporate optician” means a body corporate registered in the register of bodies corporate maintained under section 9 of the Opticians Act 1989, which is carrying on business as an optometrist;” and

(b)

for the definition of “optician” substitute—

““optician” means a person registered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7 (register of opticians) of the Opticians Act 1989^f2 or a corporate optician;”.

(3)

In regulation 9C(1) (cases where the Primary Care Trust must remove an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician) ^f3, after sub-paragraph (e), add—

“(f)

in the case of an optician, is the subject of a direction made by the Fitness to Practise Committee of the General Optical Council other than in a health case to erase his name from the appropriate register or suspend his registration under section 13F(3)(a) or (b), (7)(a) or (b) or (13)(a) or (b) (powers of the Fitness to Practise Committee) of the Opticians Act 1989^f4.

(1A)

In paragraph (1), “health case” has the meaning given to it in section 13G(6) of the Opticians Act 1989^f5.”.

(4)

In regulation 10(1) (the Statement)^f6—

(a)

after “as to” insert

“—”; and

(a)

(b)

at the end add—

“and

(b)

the allowances to be paid in respect of continuing education and training by ophthalmic medical practitioners and opticians other than corporate opticians.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1986/975, the definition of corporate optician was inserted by S.I. 2005/480.
f2: Section 7 was amended by S.I. 2005/848.
f3: Regulation 9C was inserted by S.I. 2001/3739; paragraph (1) was amended by S.I. 2002/2469 and S.I. 2005/480.
f4: Section 13F was inserted by S.I. 2005/848.
f5: Section 13G was inserted by S.I. 2005/848.
f6: Regulation 10 was amended, in relation to England, by S.I. 2001/3739 and 2002/2469.