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Regulation 3 Amendment of regulation 15 of the principal RegulationsF1I1

Northern Ireland

In regulation 15 of the principal Regulations (sight tests - eligibility)—

(a)

after paragraph (1)(b) insert—

“(bb)

a person who is aged 60 years or more;”; and

(b)

at the end of paragraph (1)(f) insert “or has been advised by an ophthalmologist that he is predisposed to the development of glaucoma;”;

(c)

after paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A)

In paragraph (1)(f) “ophthalmologist” means a doctor whose name is included in the register of specialists kept by the General Medical Council under Article 8 of the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995f1 and in respect of whom that register indicates his speciality to be ophthalmology.”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked (9.11.2007) by General Ophthalmic Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/436), regs. 1, 23(1), Sch. 3 (with reg. 23(2))

Commencement

I1

Reg. 3 in operation at 1.4.1999, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1995/3208, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations