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Opticians Act, 1956
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Registration of certain other persons in the Register of Dispensing Opticians.

35.—(1) The Board shall, in accordance with rules, register in the Register of Dispensing Opticians a person who applies for such registration and who satisfies the conditions that prior to the establishment day he had received a qualification approved of by the Board for the purposes of this subsection and that, at the time of his application, he continues to hold that qualification with the approval of the examining body concerned.

(2) The Board shall, in accordance with rules, register in the Register of Dispensing Opticians a person who applies for such registration and who satisfies the condition that, on the 13th day of July, 1955, he was included in the panel of opticians maintained by the Minister for Social Welfare for the purpose of section 25 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952).

(3) The Board shall, in accordance with rules, register in the Register of Dispensing Opticians a person who applies for such registration and who satisfies the condition that his principal means of livelihood during the whole period of seven years ending on the establishment day was the carrying on of the business of dispensing optician in the State.

(4) The Board shall, in accordance with rules, register in the Register of Dispensing Opticians a person who applies for such registration, who has passed an examination held by the Board in the dispensing of spectacles and who satisfies the condition that, during the period of five years ending on the establishment day, he engaged to such extent as may be specified in the rules in the dispensing of spectacles in the State.

(5) The examination referred to in subsection (4) of this section shall, during the period of two years beginning on the day of the commencement of the Register of Dispensing Opticians, be held by the Board on so many occasions as may be directed or approved of by the Minister, and shall not be held after the expiration of that period.