{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-no-2-regulations-1989/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-no-2-regulations-1989/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1230",
  "legislation_title": "The Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No. 2) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-no-2-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions to the duty to issue a prescription or statement",
  "text": "The duty which section 20B(2) of the Act imposes on doctors and optometrists (to issue a prescription or a statement after testing a patient’s sight) shall not arise where–\n(a) the doctor or optometrist who has tested the patient’s sight refers the patient to his doctor for further investigation or treatment;\n(b) the sight test was carried out as part of a general medical examination including such an examination for insurance purposes, within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988, or for employment purposes, within the meaning of section 2(1) of that Act; ...\n(c) the patient was resident in a hospital or a clinic, for the purposes of treatment, when his sight was tested ; or\n(d) the patient is being fitted with contact lenses as part of the medical or clinical treatment provided for an eye condition..",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4 substituted (30.6.2005 as notified in the London Gazette dated 3.6.2005) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), Sch. 1 para. 22(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Regulation substituted (30.6.2005 as notified in the London Gazette dated 3.6.2005) by The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/848), Sch. 1 para. 22(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(b) omitted (30.6.2005) by virtue of The Contact Lens (Specification) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1481), regs. 1(1), 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(d) and word inserted (30.6.2005) by The Contact Lens (Specification) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1481), regs. 1(1), 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 31.7.1989, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 28."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1230/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:40:33.399590+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."
}