The General Optical Council Contact Lens (Specification) Rules Order of Council 1989

Made: 8th May 1989

Laid before Parliament: 10th May 1989

Coming into force: 1st June 1989

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 8th day of May 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 (Specification) Rules Order of Council 1989, and shall come into force on 1st June 1989.

SCHEDULE — THE CONTACT LENS (SPECIFICATION) RULES 1989

The General Optical Council in exercise of their powers under section 25(1)(e) of the Opticians Act, 1958, hereby make the following rules:–

Citation and commencement

1

These Rules may be cited as the Contact Lens (Specification) Rules 1989, and shall come into force on the 1st day of June 1989.

Duty to provide specification

2

An optician who fits a person with a contact lens shall on completing the fitting give to him a written statement of the particulars necessary to enable the lens to be replicated.

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 require opticians on completing the fitting of a contact lens to supply the recipient with written details of the lens which will enable it to be replicated.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1958 c. 32.