Optometrists and Opticians (Practice, Conduct, Ethics and Publicity) Regulations

Optometrists and Opticians Act

(Chapter 213A, Section 37)

Rg 3

G.N. No. S 556/2008

REVISED EDITION 2009

(31st August 2009)

[1st November 2008]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Optometrists and Opticians (Practice, Conduct, Ethics and Publicity) Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“aftercare” means the follow-up service provided to a patient after the prescription, fitting or supply of an optical appliance for that patient;

“contact lens practice” means acts or activities specified in items 2, 5 and 6 of Part II of the Schedule to the Act, where such acts or activities relate to contact lenses;

“contact lens practitioner” means a registered optometrist or an exempted optician permitted under the Act to carry out contact lens practice;

“exempted optician” means a person referred to in paragraph 2(1) of the Optometrists and Opticians (Exemption from section 25(1)) Order (O 1);

“patient” means a person who consults a registered person;

“publicity” means any form of advertisement and includes any advertisement —

(a)	printed in any medium for the communication of information;
(b)	appearing in, communicated through or retrievable from, any mass medium, electronic or otherwise; or
(c)	contained in any medium for communication produced or for use by a firm.

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