The General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 73

OPTICIANS

The General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1998

Made

13th January 1998

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 13th day of January 1998

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Whereas in pursuance of section 10 of the Opticians Act 1989(1) the General Optical Council have made the Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules 1997 as set out in the Schedule to this Order:

And whereas by section 34 of the said Act such rules shall not come into force until approved by Order of the Privy Council:

And whereas upon rule 3 of the said rules coming into force the revocation mentioned therein will render wholly spent the General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1996(2):

Now, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said rules into consideration, are hereby pleased to approve the same, and hereby revoke with effect from 1st April 1998 the General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1996.

This Order may be cited as the General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1998.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE GENERAL OPTICAL COUNCIL

The Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules 1997

In pursuance of their powers under section 10 of the Opticians Act 1989, the General Optical Council hereby make the following rules:—

1.  These rules may be cited as the Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules 1997.

2.  In the Registration and Enrolment Rules 1976 (which in their original form are scheduled to the General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment Rules) Order of Council 1977(3)) the Appendix shall be amended by replacing the figures £52, £30, £19, on each occasion where they appear, by the figures £60, £35 and £22 respectively.

3.  The Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules 1996(4) (which will be spent on the coming into force of these Rules) are hereby revoked.

4.  These Rules shall come into force on 1st April 1998 and shall apply to applications for registration, enrolment, retention, restoration and transfer to take effect on or after 1st April 1998 whether made before, on or after that date.

Sealed on the

Attested by:

L.S.

13th August 1997

D. J. Burt

Member of Council

R. Buckley

Member of Council

R. D. Wilshin

Registrar

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The rules approved by this Order increase with effect from 1st April 1998 the fees payable to the General Optical Council by ophthalmic and dispensing opticians and bodies corporate carrying on business as opticians for registration, enrolment or retention in, restoration to and transfer within the register of opticians. The fees were last fixed in April 1997 and the order of increase is approximately 15 to 16 per cent.

This Order also revokes a previous Order of Council which becomes spent on the revocation of rules which are scheduled to it.

(1)

1989 c. 44.

(2)

S.I. 1996/3021.

(3)

S.I. 1977/176; relevant amending rules are scheduled to S.I. 1979/1638, 1980/1936 (now spent), 1981/1821 (now spent), 1983/1 (now spent), 1985/2024, 1985/1887 (now spent), 1990/270 (now spent), 1991/79 (now spent), 1993/483 (now spent), 1994/729 (now spent) and 1996/3021.

(4)

Scheduled to the General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1996 (S.I. 1996/3021).