Section 24 Testing of sight.
United Kingdom
Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person who is not a registered medical practitioner or registered F1optometrist shall not test the sight of another person.
Subsection (1) above shall not apply to the testing of sight by a person recognised by a medical authority as a medical student, if carried out as part of a course of instruction approved by that authority for medical students or as part of an examination so approved.
The Council may by rules exempt from subsection (1) above the testing of sight by persons training as F2optometrists , or any prescribed class of such persons, in such cases and subject to compliance with such conditions as may be prescribed by the rules.
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of an amount not exceeding F3level 5 on the standard scale.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Word in s. 24(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)-(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), Sch. 1 para. 2(a) (with Sch. 2)
- F2
Word in s. 24(3) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)-(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), Sch. 1 para. 2(b) (with Sch. 2)
- F3
Words in s. 24(4) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)-(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), art. 21(1)(2) (with art. 21(4), Sch. 2)