Explanatory note

These Regulations set out the particulars which must be given to a patient by a medical practitioner when he issues a specification to a patient to whom he has fitted a contact lens.

Regulation 2 amends the Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 “(the Sight Testing Regulations)” so that the duty to issue a written statement as to whether the patient is being referred to a medical practitioner, does not arise in a case to which paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 1 to the General Ophthalmic Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 applies. This regulation also extends the exceptions to the duty to issue a prescription or statement in the Sight Testing Regulations to include where a patient is being fitted with contact lenses.