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Opticians.

CHAPTER 138.

OPTICIANS.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

as an optician entitled to be registered.

1.

Short title.

2.

Interpreta tion.

3.

Register of opticians.

4.No person to practise 5.

Persons 6.

Examination 7.

Application 8.

Publication 9.Evidence 10.Registered opticians entitled 11.Erasing conduct.

and evidence of sight-testing.

to recover name of optician for registration.

of copy of register charges.

guilty by Board of applicants from register 5 (c).


under section of practice registered.

unless of registration.

of crime or disgraceful 12.Name may be restored 13.Alterations 14.Penalty 15.Offences.

16.Exemptions for secretary and erasures .

in register.

making false entry.

to register.

SCHEDULE.

CHAPTER 138.

OPTICIANS.

27 of 1933.

13 of 1952.

An Ordinance to make provision the practice to regulate incidental thereto.
for the registration of Opticians, of sight-testing and for purposes [26TH MARcH, 1934.]

Short title.

1.This Ordinance may be cited as the Opticians Ordinance.

Interpreta­ tion.

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13 of 1952, s. 2.


2.In this Ordinance unless " Board " means the medical provision s of the Colonial the context requires­ otherwise under the board constituted ; Ordinance " means a medical Medical Service " medical practitioner practitioner registered under the provisions Service ; Ordinance of the Colonial Medical " optician " means any person 5 of this Ordinance under the provisions as an to be registered entitled of section optician; Opticians.

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3.

( 1) The secretary shall keep a register in the form contained in the schedule Register) Ordinance.

to this Ordinance (to be styled of all persons registered as opticians under this Register opticians.

the Opticians Schedule.

of (2)The secretary particulars required to be registered.
shall enter in the register of all persons whom the Board shall direct the names and 4.No person shall, of this Ordinance- unless duly registered of an optician ( a)carry on the business (b)test the sight of any person; (c)dispense (d)fit, adjust (e)take or use the title of optician prescription; or renew any lens for use in spectacles ; alone or rn any optical (either under the provisions No person to practise as an optician unless registered.
13 of 1952, s. 3. ; comb_ination with any other words); or (f)take or use any name, title, that he is registered implying specially qualified or description or is under this Ordinance sight-testing.
to practise addition 5.The following persons or other evidence documentary persons payment of under this Ordinance and are otherwise qualified a fee of :five dollars shall en�t� be that they are fit and proper reg111 to be registered and upon be entitled to be registered upon satisfying the Board by Persons sight­ nam�ly :- (a)Any person qualified or entitled both of London, Association, Company of Spectacle to practise in the United Kingdom under any Act for the time testing being in force or who holds the sight-testing of the Worshipful Optical Diploma Makers or the British England; (b)Any person who holds a diploma, Possession in Council College country and published or Institution by recognised as of the of practice and skill for the efficient granted in a British the· Governor furnishing requisite knowledge sight-testing in the Gazette of the possession to him by any University, or certificate a sufficient guarantee or Foreign licence ; 1846 Cap.
138.J Opticians.

(c)Any person who at the commencement of this Ordinance has been domiciled in the Colonv for not less than five years and also is and has been for not less than five years bona fide engaged in the practice in this Colony and whom the Board permits to be registered after having passed an examination specified.

in manner hereinafter of sight-testing 6.

(1) Any person who comes within the provisions and who wishes 5 of this Ordinance, of Examination by Board of applicants under sec.

6 (c).
6 (c).

(c) of section paragraph to be registered writing under this Ordinance.

under this Ordinance, may make application in to the Board through its secretary for his examination (2)For the purposes of such examination the Board shall nominate three two medical practitioners examiners.

the examination.
the examination.

persons who shall be medical practitioners and a registered The Board shall fix the time and place for holding optician or to be the The secretary shall notify the applicant place, and the secretary give the necessary clerical assistance shall attend at such examination of such time and and to the examiners.

to be paid for each (3)Each examiner shall be entitled candidate examined a fee of five dollars.

presents the s�cretary, exammers.


before the examination, himself for examination shall be required Any candidate who to pay to the fees payable to the the in this Colony, and for examination (4)The candidate of sight-testing in this Colony in the manner required 5 of this Ordinance.
appointed shall first satisfy Board that he is a fit and proper person and that he was at of this Ordinance bona fide the date of the commencement engaged in the practice domiciled (c)of section shall direct the examiners such candidate and such examiners despatch fully and fairly examine such candidate; and, if they find him sufficiently practice Board who shall give him a certificate the secretary entitled to be registered of the registrat informed and skilled they shall report their :findings to the to register such person, and he shall then be under this Ordinance of sight-testing, The Board if so satisfied by the Board to examine to that effect, and direct for the efficient upon payment ion fee.
shall with reasonable by paragraph Application for registration.

7.

(1) Where any person desires Ordinance, submit such evidence he shall make application as shall satisfy the Board that he is to be registered to the secretary under this and shall Optici,ans.

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to be registered and is a :fit and proper person to be so (2)The secretary shall forthwith the Board, and the Board, if satisfied and is a fit and proper person secretary to register such person.
lay such application that such person before is eligible shall direct the to be registered, 8.

(1) The secretary, shall cause to be published in the Gazette in the month of February in each year, Publication of copy of a copy of the register.

register and evidence shall also cause to be published of registration.

of each cancellation of registration.
in the (2)The secretary a notice Gazette notice be made to appear) (3)A copy of the register for the time being published in the with the in accordance the specified and of any subsequent of this section shall be evidence that the persons in all cases (until therein Gazette provisions contrary under this Ordinance, are registered of any person from such copy shall be evidence contrary that in the case of a person under this Ordinance whose name does not appear in such copy, a certified under the hand of the secretary person in the register, registered copy of the entry of the name of such such person is shall be evidence that of the name (until the is not registered under this Ordinance.
that such person be made to appear) and the absence ; Provided • 9.The use of test lenses, scope, retinoscope, refraction, measure shall be deemed conclusive testing.

or any apparatus or visual spectacles, trial frames, ophthalmo­ of of that may be used to Evidence practice sight­ testing.
acuity, evidence or muscular of the practice of sight­ equilibrium, 10.Every person registered sight-testing to practise reasonable entitled and recover optical supplied shall be entitled performing aid rendered by such person, by him.

And no person, to recover charges shall be under this Ordinance in this Colony and to demand services Registered opticians entitled to recover charges.

and the cost of merchandise unless he is so registered, or for professional any act or giving any advice as an optician.
any fee or charge in any court for 11.If any optician registered of felony or misdemeanour victed or, after due inquiry, in his practice guilty Board may cause the name of such optician the register, of disgraceful is adjudged conduct under this Ordinance before the Supreme by the Board to have been optician is con-Erasing from Court, �,:!6ir the �:;: ;; as an optician, to be erased from disgraceful ,;:oqduct, 1848 Cap.

138.]

Opticians.

Name may be restored to register.


12.If the Board thinks from the register of such fee, not exceeding fit, it may, in any case direct any on the thereon fee, as the the registration to be restored name erased payment Board may fix.

Alterations and erasures in register.

13.

(1) The secretary from time to time insert come to his knowledge registered.
shall on the instructions of the Board which may in the register any alteration of any person in the name or address (2)The secretary shall on the instructions of the Board erase from the register- ( a)the name of every deceased (b)any entry which has been incorrectly person entered ; therein or fraudulently made.

Penalty for secretary making false entry, etc.


14.Any secretary or other person who shall fraudulently entry make or cause or permit to be made any false or incorrect in the register be liable to imprisonment exceeding shall ·on conviction hard labour for a term not or any copy thereof with or without two years.

Offences.
15.Any person • (a)Who shall fraudulently procure or attempt or any other person to be registered t.o procure under this himself Ordinance, procurement or who shall aid or abet in such fraudulent or attempt; or (b)Who, not being registered under this Ordinance, shall use or take the name or title of or hold himself to be an optometrist, optometry expressed tions or that he is a person specially sight-t or any name, title, in words or letters description or both implying optician, or doctor or professor of whether or addition out or pretend such qualifica­ qualified to practise esting ; or (c) Who, whether a medical or eyesight and not being oculist in connection any wTitten which are intended any person to believe or surgical registered practit specialist, trade, with his business, initials, under this Ordinance the title of to be used ioner assumes or uses or causes calling or profession, or abbreviations additions cause or may reasonably medical to represent that he is qualified treatment of the eye ; or words, titles, to practise or not (d)Who, whether and not being a medical instructions of a medical registered under this Ordinance or acting under the any drug administers practitioner practitioner, or not Opticians.
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1849 for the purpose or otherwise of vision, drugs; or of paralysing for facilitating any disease or treats of the eye the accommodation of the powers the measurement of the eye by the use of (e)Who contravenes the provisions of section 4 of this Ordinance, shall be guilty summary conviction hundred be liable and forty dollars.

of an offence under this Ordinance, to a penalty not exceeding and shall on two prejudice 16.
( 1) Nothing in this Ordinance or in any way affect Medical in this Ordinance (2)Nothing contained shall extend to Exemptions.

Practitioners.

shall so operate as to prohibit (a)any registered and dispenser sicknurse any drugs subject Pharmacy and Poisons chemist and druggist from dispensing, to the restrictions selling or registered or supplying imposed by the Ordinance ; or (b)any wholesale dealer in the ordinary from supplying lenses, or spectacles ; or business Cap.
141. frames, ophthalmic course of wholesale (c)any registered nurse and dispenser of business prescription optician, and otherwise given by a medical spectacles chemist from selling, and druggist sick­ place from a permanent than in compliance with a practitioner kept in stock in a state ready for use.

or registered or a registered SCHEDULE.

a.s. OPTICIANS REGISTER.

Na.me.

Address.

Date of Qualification or Examination.

Date of Registration.

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