Third

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2014

BILL 19

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

DISPENSING OPTICIANS ACT, 2005

Received and Read the First Time .................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ..........................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

PAUL DAVIS

Minister of Health and Community Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Dispensing Opticians Act, 2005 to

remove the restriction that a

dispensing optician may only supply contact lenses where a prescription specifically

indicates that they may be supplied; and

clarify that a dispensing

optician who is authorized by the board to fit contact lenses may convert a

prescription in order to fit, dispense or supply contact lenses.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DISPENSING OPTICIANS

ACT, 2005

Analysis

S.33 R&S

Contact lenses

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2005 cD-25.1

as amended

Section 33 of the Dispensing Opticians Act, 2005 is repealed and the following substituted:

Contact lenses

(1) Contact

lenses shall only be fitted by a dispensing optician who holds a certificate

from the board authorizing him or her to do so.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection 32(1), a dispensing

optician who holds a certificate from the board authorizing him or her to fit

contact lenses may convert a prescription for the purposes of fitting,

dispensing or supplying contact lenses.

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