General Ophthalmic Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 15 of the principal Regulations (sight tests - eligibility)—

(a)after paragraph (1)(b) insert—

(bb)a person who is aged 60 years or more;; and

(b)at the end of paragraph (1)(f) insert “or has been advised by an ophthalmologist that he is predisposed to the development of glaucoma;”;

(c)after paragraph (2) insert—

(2A) In paragraph (1)(f) “ophthalmologist” means a doctor whose name is included in the register of specialists kept by the General Medical Council under Article 8 of the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995(1) and in respect of whom that register indicates his speciality to be ophthalmology..

(1)

S.I. 1995/3208, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations