Optometrists Act 1957 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 4 of 1957.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Optometrists Ordinance 1956.

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Common-	Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under
,	wealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal

the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1955.

Dated this eighth day of March, 1957.

W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

DONALD A. CAMERON

Minister of State for Health, Acting for and on behalf of the Minister of State for the Interior.

OPTOMETRISTS ORDINANCE 1957.

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Optometrists .,

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(2.) The Optometrists Ordinance 1956f is in this Ordinance

referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordi-

nance, may be cited as the Optometrists Ordinance 1956-1957.

2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a date to be Commencc-

iixed by the Minister of State for Health by notice in the Gazette, ment

3. Section four of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from the definition of " optometry " in sub-section (1.) all the words after paragraph (b) and inserting in their stead the words " but does not include the dispensing of prescriptions for spectacles made or given by a medical practitioner or the craft of lens-grinding and spectacles-making; ". Imerpretation.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th March, 1957.
t Ordinance No. 4, 1956.

registration. 4. Section fifteen of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
(a) by inserting in sub-section (l.)» after the word
" person ", the words ", and upon payment by

that person of a fee of One pound "; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words ", upon

payment of a fee of One pound,".

5. After section thirty-three of the Principal Ordinance, the

following section is inserted:—

Sale of	" 33A.—(1.) A person other than a registered optometrist shall not sell spectacles except in accordance with a prescription written by a medical practitioner or by a registered optometrist and produced to him by the person to whom the spectacles are sold.
spectacles.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.

" (2.) In this section, 'spectacles' does not include sun-

glasses.".

BY Authority: A. J . ARTHUH, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.