Article 2 Amendment of article 1 of the Prescribing Order

In article 1 of the Prescribing Order (citation, commencement, extent and interpretation), in paragraph (4)—

(a)

after the definition of “registered midwife”, insert the following definition—

““registered optometrist” means a person whose name is entered in the register of optometrists maintained under section 7(a) of the Opticians Act 1989^f1;”;

(b)

in the definition of “relevent register”—

(i)

in paragraph (b) omit “and”;

(ii)

in paragraph (c), after “that register;” insert “and”; and

(iii)

after paragraph (c), insert—

“(d)

in relation to a registered optometrist, the register of optometrists maintained under section 7(a) of the Opticians Act 1989;”;

(c)

in the definition of “supplementary prescriber”—

(i)

in paragraph (c), omit “or”;

(ii)

in paragraph (d), after “radiographers: diagnostic or therapeutic,” insert “or”; and

(iii)

after paragraph (d), insert—

“(e)

a registered optometrist,”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1989 c. 44; section 7 was amended by article 7(1) of the Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005; S.I. 2005/ 848, which will come into force on 30th June 2005.