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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-contact-lens-qualifications-etc-rules-order-of-council-1988/schedule/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-contact-lens-qualifications-etc-rules-order-of-council-1988/schedule/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1305",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) Rules) Order of Council 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-contact-lens-qualifications-etc-rules-order-of-council-1988",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendment of Rules",
  "text": "The Rules on the Fitting of Contact Lenses 1985 (in this Rule referred to as “the 1985 Rules”) shall be amended as follows:—\n(a) at the end of Rule 2(a) of the 1985 Rules there shall be inserted the following definition:—\n““qualified registered optician” means a registered optician who holds an approved qualification, as defined in the Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) Rules 1988 (scheduled to the General Optical Council (Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) Rules) Order of Council 1988 (S.I. 1988/1305) or has been granted certification as a person qualified to fit contact lenses in accordance with the provisions of those Rules;”\n(b) in Rule 3(b) of the 1985 Rules after the words “supervision of a” there shall be inserted the word “qualified”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Rules on the Fitting of Contact Lenses 1985 are scheduled to the General Optical Council (Rules on the Fitting of Contact Lenses) Order of Council 1985 (S.I. 1985/856)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/1476",
      "affecting_title": "The General Optical Council (Injury or Disease of the Eye and Contact Lens (Qualifications)) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1940",
      "affecting_title": "The General Optical Council (Therapeutics and Contact Lens Specialties) Rules Order of Council 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/375",
      "affecting_title": "The General Optical Council (Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1989"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1305/schedule/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:02:41.674071+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}