The General Optical Council (Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1989

Made: 7th March 1989

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 1989

Coming into force: 1st April 1989

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 7th day of March 1989 By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Now, therefore, Their Lordships having taken the said Rules into consideration, are hereby pleased to approve the same.

This Order may be cited as the General Optical Council (Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1989, and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.

SCHEDULE — THE CONTACT LENS (QUALIFICATIONS ETC.) (AMENDMENT) RULES 1989

The General Optical Council, in exercise of their powers under sections 25(1)(e), 25(3A) and 25(4) of the Opticians Act 1958, hereby make the following Rules:–

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These Rules may be cited as the Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) (Amendment) Rules 1989.

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The Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) Rules 1988 (scheduled to the General Optical Council (Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) Rules) Order of Council 1988[^f00002] shall be amended by the addition to Section B of Appendix A to the Rules of the following:–

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These Rules shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1989.

Signed

G.I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Rules approved by this Order add certain qualifications of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians and of the British College of Optometrists to the list of approved qualifications in Appendix A to the General Optical Council Contact Lens (Qualifications etc.) Rules 1988 (approved by S.I. 1988/1305), which regulate the fitting of contact lenses by registered opticians.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1958 c. 32; section 25(3A) was inserted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), section 2(2).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1988/1305.