Opticians Act 1989
Opticians Act 1989 (1989 c. 44)
- Opticians Act 1989 (1989 c. 44)
- Part I The General Optical Council
- The Council
- 1 Constitution and functions of the Council.
- The Council’s Committees
- 2 The Education Committee.
- 3 The Companies Committee
- 4 The Investigation Committee
- 5 The Registration Committee
- 5A. The Registration Appeals Committee
- 5B. The Standards Committee
- 5C. The Fitness to Practise Committee
- 5D. The Hearings Panel
- 6 General power to appoint committees.
- 6A. Powers of delegation
- Part II Registration and Training of Opticians
- The registers and lists
- 7 Registers of opticians.
- 8 Qualifications for being registered.
- 8ZA Section 8: further provision relating to specified state qualifications
- 8A. Registers of students
- 8B. Visiting opticians from relevant European States: registers
- 8C. Visiting optometrists: entitlement to registration
- 8D. Visiting dispensing opticians: entitlement to registration
- 9 List of bodies corporate carrying on business as opticians.
- 10 General provisions as to registers and lists.
- 10A. Indemnity arrangements for individual registrants and persons applying for their name to be registered
- 11 Publication of registers and proof of registration
- Training and Qualifications
- 11A. Requirement for continuing education and training
- 11B. Failure to satisfy requirements imposed under a scheme
- 12 Education and training
- 13 Supervision of training establishments and qualifying assessments .
- PART 2A FITNESS TO PRACTISE
- 13A. The Council’s duty to provide guidance on fitness to practise
- 13AA Information to be provided to specified state professionals
- 13B. The Council’s power to require disclosure of information
- 13C. Notification and disclosure by the Council
- 13D. Allegations
- 13E. Provisions supplementary to section 13D
- 13F. Powers of the Fitness to Practise Committee
- 13G. Provisions supplementary to section 13F
- 13H. Financial penalty order
- 13I. Power to order immediate suspension etc. after a finding of impairment of fitness to practise
- 13J. Removal from a register on grounds of fraud or error
- 13K. Restoration of names to a register
- 13L. Interim orders
- 13M. Provisions supplementary to section 13L
- Part III Disciplinary Proceedings
- 14 Disciplinary orders.
- 15 Suspension orders.
- 16 Penalty orders.
- 17 Powers of Disciplinary Committee.
- 18 Restoration of names erased as result of disciplinary cases etc.
- 19 Erasure from register and list on grounds of fraud or error.
- 20 Service of notifications.
- 21 Procedure of Disciplinary Committee.
- 22 Assessors to Disciplinary Committee.
- 23 Appeals in disciplinary and other cases.
- PART 3A PROCEEDINGS AND APPEALS
- 23A. Service of notification
- 23B. Procedure of Fitness to Practise Committee and Registration Appeals Committee
- 23C. Powers of the Council to make rules
- 23D. Legal advisers
- 23E. Other advisers
- 23F. Registration appeals
- 23G. Appeals from the Registration Appeals Committee and the Fitness to Practise Committee
- 23H. Date decision takes effect
- Part IV Restrictions On Testing Of Sight, Fitting Of Contact Lenses, Sale And Supply Of Optical Appliances And Use Of Titles And Descriptions
- 24 Testing of sight.
- 25 Fitting of contact lenses.
- 26 Duties to be performed on sight testing.
- 27 Sale and supply of optical appliances.
- 28 Penalty for pretending to be registered etc.
- 29 Provision as to death or bankruptcy of registered optician.
- 30 Offences by bodies corporate.
- 30A. Legal proceedings
- Part V Miscellaneous And Supplementary
- Miscellaneous
- 31 Miscellaneous matters with respect to which rules may be made.
- 31A. Rules
- 32 Expenses and accounts of the Council.
- 32A. Annual reports, statistical reports and strategic plans
- 33 Default powers of Privy Council.
- 34 Subordinate legislation procedure.
- 35 Privy Council quorum and documents.
- Supplementary
- 36 Interpretation.
- 37 Consequential amendments and repeals.
- 38 Commencement.
- 39 Short title and extent.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Constitution etc. of Council
- Membership etc.
- Membership: general
- Matters for the order of the Privy Council under section 1(4)
- Registration of members’ private interests
- The registrar
- Powers of Council
- Power of Privy Council to alter membership of Council etc.
- SCHEDULE 1A REGISTRATION APPEALS
- Interpretation
- Appealable registration decisions
- Notice of appealable registration decisions
- Appeals from an appealable registration decision
- Extension of time for appealing
- SCHEDULE 2 Repeals
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