HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 122
Restriction on prescription of optical appliances
HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 122
Restriction on prescription of optical appliances
122 Restriction on prescription of optical appliances
(1) A person must not
prescribe an optical appliance unless--
(a) the person is an optometrist or
medical practitioner; or
(b) the appliance is spectacles and the person is an
orthoptist who--
(i) prescribes the spectacles in the course of carrying out
duties at a public health facility; or
(ii) prescribes the spectacles under
the supervision of an optometrist or medical practitioner; or
(iii)
prescribes the spectacles, on the written referral of an optometrist or
medical practitioner, to a person who has had, within the 12 months before the
referral, an ocular health examination conducted by an optometrist or medical
practitioner; or
(c) the person is a person, or a member of a class of
persons, prescribed under a regulation as being authorised to prescribe an
optical appliance of that type or to prescribe optical appliances generally.
: Maximum penalty--$60,000 or 3 years imprisonment or both
(2) In this
section--
"optical appliance" means--
(a) any appliance designed to correct, remedy or
relieve any refractive abnormality or defect of sight, including, for example,
spectacle lenses; or
(b) contact lenses, whether or not designed to correct,
remedy or relieve any refractive abnormality or defect of sight.
"optometrist" means a person registered in the optometry profession.
"orthoptist" means a person whose name is recorded in the Register of
Orthoptists kept by the Australian Orthoptists Registration Body Pty Ltd (ACN
095 11 7 678).
