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Prohibition on treatment, etc., by registered opticians.
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48.—(1) A registered optician who is not a registered medical practitioner shall not, on or after the appointed day—
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(a) treat any disease of the eye or prescribe or administer any drug or other medical preparation for that purpose,
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(b) prescribe or administer any drug for the purpose of paralysing the accommodation of the eye, or
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(c) suggest by any written or oral statement or by any action that he has made or is capable of making a medical diagnosis of a disease of the eye or that, in relation to the treatment of the eyes, he has done or is capable of doing anything which is other than—
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(i) in the case of a registered ophthalmic optician, the prescribing or provision of spectacles, or
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(ii) in the case of a registered dispensing optician, the provision of spectacles.
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(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section 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.
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(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing a registered ophthalmic optician from providing, in accordance with rules, orthoptic treatment for any person on the written direction of a registered medical practitioner who has examined that person, or from suggesting that he has provided or is capable of providing as aforesaid.
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