New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

OPTOMETRISTS ACT 1930 - SECT 19

19 Qualifications for registration

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any person who proves to the satisfaction of the board that he or she is of good character and has attained the age of twenty-one years shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, be entitled to be registered as an optometrist if he or she:

(a) is the holder of a degree of Bachelor of Science (Optometrical Science) or Bachelor of Optometry granted by the University of New South Wales,

(b) is an Associate of the Sydney Technical College in Optometry,

(c) is the holder of a recognised certificate, or

(d) is the holder of a certificate under subsection (2) declaring him or her to be an approved person for the purposes of this paragraph.

(2) Where:

(a) a person possesses qualifications with respect to optometry but would not be entitled to be registered under this Act by virtue of those qualifications alone,

(b) he or she obtains further qualifications by:

(i) undertaking, in a manner satisfactory to the board, such courses of training with respect to optometry, and

(ii) passing such examinations with respect to optometry,

as the board may prescribe in respect of him or her, and

(c) the board is satisfied that, by virtue of the qualifications referred to in paragraph (a), together with the further qualifications referred to in paragraph (b) (other than subparagraph (i) or (ii), as the case may be, of that paragraph if he or she has been exempted therefrom under subsection (3)), he or she possesses the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of optometry in New South Wales,

the board may issue to him or her a certificate declaring him or her to be an approved person for the purposes of paragraph (d) of subsection (1).

(3) The board may, if in the special circumstances of the case it thinks fit to do so, exempt a person referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) from the provisions of either subparagraph (i) or subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of that subsection, but not both.

(4) The board may direct the removal from the register of the name of a person registered under this Act by virtue of his or her being the holder of a certificate under subsection (2) if the board is of the opinion that he or she was not entitled to be issued with such a certificate.