Paragraph 10 Work or activities permitted for persons with register entries relating to specialties
United Kingdom
A registrant of a category listed in column 1 of the Table, may be permitted to register particulars of the specialty listed in relation to that category in column 2.
Where particulars of a specialty listed in column 2 of the Table are entered against a registrant's name in a register, the registrant may perform the work or activities listed in relation to that specialty in column 3.
Table
Specialties
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category of person | Specialty | Work or activities | ||
| A | Registered dispensing optician | Contact lens specialty | (a) assessing whether a contact lens meets the needs of an individual; (b) providing the individual with one or more contact lenses for use during a trial period | |
| B | Registered optometrist | Additional supply specialty | (a) the signing of orders for the sale or supply of prescription only medicines set out in column 2 of F1paragraph 8 of Part 1 of Schedule 17 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (b) the sale or supply of the prescription only medicines referred to in column 2 of and in accordance with column 3 of paragraph F29 of that Schedule | |
| C | Registered optometrist | Supplementary prescribing specialty | The prescribing, administration or giving of directions for administration of medicinal products under and in accordance with F3regulation 215 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 | |
| F4D | Registered optometrist | Independent prescribing specialty | the prescribing, administration or giving of directions for the administration of medicinal products that are— | |
| (a) | for the treatment of ocular conditions affecting the eye or adnexa; and | |||
| (b) | specified in F5regulation 5(3) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 | |||
| other than those that are controlled drugs or for parenteral administration. | ||||
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Sch. rule 10 Table substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 90(a)(i) (with Sch. 32)
- F2
Word in Sch. rule. 10 Table substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 90(a)(ii) (with Sch. 32)
- F3
Words in Sch. rule 10 Table substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 90(b) (with Sch. 32)
- F4
Words in Sch. rule 10 Table inserted (coming into force in accordance with Sch. rule 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The General Optical Council (Therapeutics and Contact Lens Specialties) Rules Order of Council 2008 (S.I. 2008/1940), Sch. rule 2(4)
- F5
Words in Sch. rule 10 Table substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 90(c) (with Sch. 32)