Singapore legislation
Clause 13
Clause 13
Registers
(1)
The Registrar shall keep and maintain the following registers:
a Register of Optometrists containing the names of persons registered as optometrists under section 15; and
a Register of Opticians containing the names of persons registered as opticians under section 15.
(2)
The Register of Optometrists and the Register of Opticians shall contain the following particulars of every registered person:
his name and residential address;
information as to whether he is practising as a proprietor or an employee;
the registered name of the business or eye care establishment that he operates or is employed by;
the address of his most current place of work;
the date of his registration as an optometrist or optician;
the qualifications by virtue of which he is registered and the date on which he obtained those qualifications; and
such other particulars as the Board may determine.
(3)
A registered person shall inform the Registrar in writing of —
any change in his name, residential address, practice address or other particulars as may be prescribed, within 28 days of the occurrence of the change; and
any alteration or addition to his qualifications.
(4)
Any person who fails to comply with subsection (3)(a) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.
(5)
A person who makes a report of a change in his residential address under section 8 of the National Registration Act (Cap. 201) shall be deemed to have complied with subsection (3)(a) in relation to his residential address on the date on which he makes the report.
(6)
The Registrar may disclose any information in the Register of Optometrists or the Register of Opticians to any person prescribed by the regulations, if such disclosure is in accordance with such conditions as may be specified in those regulations.
(7)
Subsection (6) is without prejudice to any other right or duty to disclose the information under any general or written law.