New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OPTICAL DISPENSERS ACT 1963 - SECT 29A

29A Supply of optical appliance pursuant to prescription

An optical dispenser must not supply an optical appliance to any person unless:

(a) the optical dispenser does so pursuant to a prescription written by a person whom the optical dispenser reasonably believes to be qualified, pursuant to any Act or law, to write a prescription for an optical appliance, for the person who is to use the optical appliance, or

(b) the optical dispenser does so by way of the copying or duplication of an optical appliance, or part of an optical appliance, furnished to the optical dispenser by or on behalf of the person, not being an optical appliance, or part, that the optical dispenser ought reasonably to have suspected had been supplied to the person otherwise than pursuant to a prescription referred to in paragraph (a), or

(c) the optical appliance is a contact lens that is not designed to correct, remedy or relieve any refractive abnormality or defect of sight.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.