{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-7.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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Additional information required from individual applicants for registration or restoration of registration as an optometrist or a dispensing optician",
  "text": "In addition to the information required under rule 5, an application under rule 3 for registration or restoration of registration as an optometrist or a dispensing optician shall include—\n(a) a contact address for the applicant;\n(b) an indication of whether or not the contact address provided under sub-paragraph (a) is a proposed practice address and—\n(i) if it is, either the trading name under which the applicant proposes to practise at that address or the name under which his employer undertakes the business of an optometrist or a dispensing optician (or both); and\n(ii) all proposed practice addresses of the applicant, other than the contact address, together with, in each case, an indication of the trading name, if any, under which the applicant proposes to practise at each address;\n(c) a copy of a certificate of any approved qualification or other qualification held by the applicant in reliance upon which the application is made, including the name of the approved training establishment or establishment from which, and the date upon which, the qualification was obtained (where this information is not stated on the certificate);\n(d) details of the practical experience in the work of an optometrist or a dispensing optician by virtue of which the application is made;\n(e) evidence that, if the applicant's name were to be entered in the register, that applicant would have in place appropriate cover under an indemnity arrangement for the purposes of complying with section 10A (indemnity arrangements for individual registrants and persons applying for their name to be registered);\n(f) a copy of that indemnity arrangement or a means of identifying the terms of that indemnity arrangement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. rule 7(e)(f) substituted (17.7.2014) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Indemnity Arrangements) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1887), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1478/schedule/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}