Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
The rules approved by this Order increase with effect from 1st April 1991, the fees payable to the General Optical Council by ophthalmic and dispensing opticians and bodies corporate carrying on business as opticians for registration, enrolment or retention im, restoration to and transfer within the registers of opticians. The fees were last fixed in April 1990, and the level of increase on this occasion is 15 per cent.