New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OPTICAL DISPENSERS ACT 1963 - SECT 28

28 Practice by unlicensed persons prohibited

(1) On and after a day to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette, no person other than an optical dispenser shall:

(a) for fee or reward carry out optical dispensing, or

(b) take or use any name, initials, word, title, addition, symbol or description which, having regard to the circumstances in which it is taken or used, indicates, or is capable of being understood to indicate, or is calculated to lead persons to infer, that the person is licensed under this Act as an optical dispenser, or take or use the name or title of optical dispenser.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

Day appointed under this subsection: 1.10.1964-see Gazette No 112 of 25.9.1964, p 3018.

(2) Nothing in this section shall operate to prevent:

(a) the carrying out of optical dispensing or the taking or using of the name or title of optical dispenser by a corporation or a friendly society which employs only optical dispensers to perform the work of optical dispensing undertaken by such corporation or friendly society,

(b) the carrying out of optical dispensing by a person who has been given an approval under section 22B, where the optical dispensing is carried out within such period and subject to such conditions as may have been specified in the approval.