Regulation 2 Amendment of terms of service

Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations 1986^f1 (terms of service) shall be amended according to the following provisions of this regulation.

In paragraph 4(1) and (2) (premises and equipment) and paragraph 6(2) (records), in each case, for the words “A contractor” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph 8(5), a contractor”.

In paragraph 7(3) (deputies) there shall be added, at the end, the following words “to the same extent as the contractor for whom he is deputising”.

In paragraph 8(5) (employees) there shall be added, at the end, the following words —

• “but only, in the case of paragraphs 4(1) and (2) and 6(2), to the extent that he has not taken all reasonable steps to secure that the requirements of those provisions are met.”.

In paragraph 10 (testing of sight) after sub-paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph —

“(3A)

Where a contractor issues to a patient a prescription for glasses, he shall, immediately thereafter, require the patient to acknowledge its receipt on a sight test form.”.