Paragraph 4 Qualifications required for fitting of contact lens by a registered optician

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. rule 15 word substituted by General Optical Council (Injury or Disease of the Eye and Contact Lens (Qualifications)) Rules 2005 Sch. rule 3
Sch. rule 3 words inserted by General Optical Council (Therapeutics and Contact Lens Specialties) Rules 2008 Sch. rule 5
sch. amended by General Optical Council (Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) (Amendment) Rules) 1989

Nothing in Rule 3 shall prevent a registered optician fitting a contact lens if the contact lens is fitted under the supervision of a registered optician who may fit contact lenses by virtue of Rule 3(a) or (b).