{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-11A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-11A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Registration Rules) Order of Council 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/11A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11A",
  "heading": "Exceptions in relation to performance of work or activities without entry in the register relating to a specialty",
  "text": "Rule 11 shall not apply to the work or activities listed in column 3 of the entry at row A of the Table in rule 10 where performed by—\n(a) a registered optometrist;\n(b) a registered dispensing optician who is undertaking a course of study which will lead, after successful completion of an examination, to an approved qualification—\n(i) in the fitting of contact lenses, or\n(ii) as an optometrist; or\n(c) a registered student, who may fit a contact lens pursuant to rule 3 of the Rules on the Fitting of Contact Lenses 1985.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. rule 11A 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(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1478/schedule/paragraph/11A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:58:11.715403+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."
}