Paragraph 24 The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992

In regulation 2 of the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992^f1 (interpretation) for the definition of “optician” substitute—

• ““optician” means—

  1. (a)

     in the context of any provision requiring a member of a body constituted under these Regulations to be an optician, an optometrist whose name is registered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7(a) of the Opticians Act 1989; or

  2. (b)

     in any other context, an optometrist whose name is registered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7(a) of that Act or a body corporate registered in the register of bodies corporate maintained under section 9 of that Act carrying on business as an optometrist;”.