Regulation 13 Amendment of the National Health Service (Performers Lists) Regulations 2013

In regulation 41 (grounds for removal from the ophthalmic performers list)—

(a)

in paragraph (1)—

(i)

in sub-paragraph (b), after “suspended” insert “under section 13F(3)(b), (7) or (13)(b) of the Opticians Act 1989”;

(ii)

for the full-out words “This is subject to paragraph (2)” substitute “This is subject to paragraph (1A)”;

(b)

after paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A)
Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply where a direction that an ophthalmic practitioner’s registration in the register be suspended is made in a health case.”.