Opticians Act, 1956

Rules for control of advertising.

52.—(1) The Board may, by rules, make provision for the control of advertising (including advertising by way of canvassing) which advertises—

(a) a registered optician,

(b) the prescribing of spectacles or the provision of orthoptic treatment by a registered ophthalmic optician,

(c) the dispensing of prescriptions for spectacles by a registered optician, or

(d) sales of spectacles, being sales by or conducted by a registered optician.

(2) Where, as respects any advertising to which rules made for the purposes of this section relate, there is a contravention of any of the rules which is stated to be a penal rule, the responsible person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding, in the case of a first offence, twenty pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, one hundred pounds.

(3) In subsection (2) of this section, “the responsible person” means—

(a) in the case of advertising which advertises a registered optician, the dispensing of prescriptions for spectacles by a registered optician or sales of spectacles by a registered optician—the registered optician,

(b) in the case of advertising which advertises the prescribing of spectacles or the provision of orthoptic treatment by a registered ophthalmic optician—the registered ophthalmic optician, and

(c) in the case of advertising which advertises sales of spectacles conducted by a registered optician—the person (including a body corporate) on whose behalf the sales are to be conducted.