Optometrists Act Amendment Act 1960 (WA)

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OPTOMETRISTS.

9° Elizabeth II., No. LXXIX.

No. 79 of 1960.

AN ACT to amend the Optometrists Act, 1940-1957.

[Assented to 12th December, 1960.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation.	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Optometrists Act Amendment Act, 1960.
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as approved	(2)	In this Act the Optometrists Act, 1940-1957,
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lath Febru-	is referred to as the principal Act.
ary, 1959.
(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Optometrists Act, 1940-1960.

2. Section three of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by substituting for the word, "and" in line four of paragraph (a) of the interpreta- tion, "Optometry" the word, "or";

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(b)	by substituting for the passage, "vision." in line two of paragraph (b) of the interpretation, "Optometry" the passage, "vision; or";
(c)	by adding after paragraph (b) of the interpretation, "Optometry" the following paragraph

(c)

both such employment and such

adaptation.

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3. Section five of the principal Act is amended amended.

(a)	by substituting for the word, "seven" in line one of subsection (2) the word, "eight";
(b)	by substituting for the word, "three" in line two of subsection (3) the word, "two";
(c)	by adding after paragraph (c) of subsec- tion (3) the following paragraphs

(d)	one shall be a practising ophthal- mologist nominated by the British Medical Association (Western Aus- tralian Branch). ;
(e)	one, who shall not be a registered optometrist or registered medical practitioner, shall be nominated by the Minister to be chairman of the Board. ;

(d) by inserting after the passage, "paragraph (c)" in lines eight and nine of subsection (5) the passage, "or paragraph (d)."

4. Section eight of the principal Act is amended

by deleting subsection (2).

5. Section fifteen of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:

(1) Each member of the Board is entitled to remuneration for his services as member of the Board as prescribed from time to time by the rules, and

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addition thereto to reimbursement of travelling and other expenses incurred in carrying out his functions under this Act at the rate or rates prescribed from time to time by the rules. ;

(b) by repealing subsection (3).

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amended. 6. Section sixteen of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by substituting for paragraph (c) of sub- section (2) the following paragraph

(c) the payment of the remuneration to which the members of the Board are entitled, and of the travelling and other expenses incurred by them in carrying out their functions under this Act;

(b) by substituting for the passage, "receipts and expenditure (including liabilities of the Board)" in lines four and five of sub- section (4) the words, "income and expen- diture of the Board."

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amended. 7. Section seventeen of the principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph (a) of subsec- tion (1) the following paragraph-

(aa) for prescribing the remuneration to be paid to members of the Board for their services and the rate or rates of travelling and other expenses of which when incurred by those members in carrying out their functions under this Act they are entitled to reimbursement; .

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amended.

8. Section nineteen of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the passage, "prescribed registration fee (which shall not exceed five pounds five shillings), and on payment of the prescribed certificate fee (which shall not exceed five shillings)" in lines three, four, five and six of subsection (3) the words, "registration fee and the certificate fee respectively prescribed by the rules."

9. Section thirty-two of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words, "as an optometrist" in line three of subsection (1).

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S. 34C

10. The principal Act is amended by inserting added.

after section thirty-four B the following section:-

34C. (1) Any person who has for a period of

not less than eighteen months immediately

prior to the commencement of the Optometrists

Act Amendment Act, 1960, been continuously,

solely and bona fide engaged in the dispensing

of prescriptions made or given by oculists or optometrists, may not later than the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, apply in writing to the Board for permission to continue such dispensing, and the Board, upon payment of the prescribed fee and upon proof to its satisfaction that the applicant

(a)	has attained the age of twenty-one years and is of good character; and
(b)	is a natural born or a naturalised British subject, and has resided con- tinuously in the Commonwealth for not less than five years during which time he has resided in this State for at least two years; and
(c)	has in fact for the period aforesaid been

continuously, solely and bona fide

engaged in the dispensing of prescrip- tions made or given by oculists or optometrists,

shall grant to the applicant the permission applied for, but no such permission shall entitle, or be deemed to entitle, the applicant to measure the power of vision.

(2) The Board may prescribe an annual fee to be paid by persons granted permission pursuant to the provisions of this section.

11. Section thirty-six of the principal Act is S. 3vnded.

amended

(a)	by deleting the passage, "not exceeding six pounds six shillings," in lines two and three of subsection (3);
(b)	by deleting the words, "or regulations" in line four of subsection (3).