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The Contact Lens (Specification) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2005

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Duty to provide Contact Lens Specification

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2.  Where a registered medical practitioner issues a specification to an individual to whom he has fitted a contact lens, pursuant to section 25(5) of the Opticians Act 1989(1), it shall contain the following particulars—

(a)the name and address of the individual;

(b)if the individual has not attained the age of sixteen on the day the specification is issued, his date of birth;

(c)the name of that practitioner and his registration number in the General Medical Council’s register of registered medical practitioners;

(d)the address from which that practitioner practises;

(e)the name of the practice on whose premises the fitting was done;

(f)the date the fitting was completed;

(g)sufficient details of any lens fitted to enable a person who fits or supplies a contact lens to replicate the lens;

(h)the date the specification expires; and

such information of a clinical nature as that practitioner considers to be necessary in the particular case.

(1)

Section 25(5) was added by S.I. 2005/848.

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