{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/848",
  "legislation_title": "The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "The Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No. 2) Regulations 1989",
  "text": "In the Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No. 2) Regulations 1989—\n(a) in regulation 2(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “optician” substitute—\n““optometrist” means a registered optometrist;”;\n(b) for the word “optician”, wherever it occurs, substitute “optometrist”;\n(c) in regulation 3(1)(b) (examination) at the end add—\n“and\n(iii) if he is referring the patient to a doctor, setting out the reason for the referral.”;\n(d) in regulation 4 (exceptions to the duty to issue a prescription statement), for the word “opticians” substitute “optometrists”; and\n(e) in regulation 5(1) (particulars to be included in a prescription or statement), in sub-paragraph (a) at the end add “and such other particulars as may be necessary to enable each lens to be replicated.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 22 comes into force in accordance with art. 1(3)-(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1230."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/848/schedule/1/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:02:10.599022+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."
}