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

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

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 —

printed in any medium for the communication of information;

appearing in, communicated through or retrievable from, any mass medium, electronic or otherwise; or

contained in any medium for communication produced or for use by a firm.