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Regulations may provide as to the arrangements to be made under section 38 above, and shall include provision—
(a)for the preparation and publication of lists of medical practitioners, ophthalmic opticians and dispensing opticians, respectively, who undertake to provide general ophthalmic services;
(b)for conferring a right, subject to the provisions of this Act relating to the disqualification of practitioners, on any medical practitioner having the prescribed qualifications, ophthalmic optician or dispensing optician who wishes to be included in the appropriate list, to be so included;
(c)for conferring on any person a right to choose in accordance with the prescribed procedure the medical practitioner or ophthalmic optician by whom his sight is to be tested, or from whom any prescription for the supply of optical appliances is to be obtained and the ophthalmic or dispensing optician who wishes to supply the appliances;
(d)for the removal from the list of medical practitioners, ophthalmic opticians or dispensing opticians undertake-to provide general ophthalmic services for persons in any area of the name of any one in whose case it has been determined in such manner as may be prescribed that he has never provided, or has ceased to provide, such general ophthalmic services for persons in that area.
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