General Ophthalmic Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Amendment of regulation 8 of the Ophthalmic Regulations

3.—(1) Regulation 8 of the Ophthalmic Regulations (ophthalmic list)(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (3) –

(a) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted –

“(b) except in the case of a mobile practice, the addresses of any places in the Board’s area at which they have undertaken to provide general ophthalmic services, other than mobile services;”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (c) from “, or in the case of” to the end shall be deleted;

(c) in sub-paragraph (d) –

(i) after “or employee”, there shall be inserted “in assisting”, and

(ii) at the end, there shall be added “or in the provision of mobile services”; and

(d) at the end, there shall be added sub-paragraph (e) –

“(e) if the contractor has made arrangements with the Board to provide mobile services –

(i) that fact,

(ii) the addresses of any day or residential centres visited regularly, with particulars of the months in which visits are planned to take place and the planned interval between such visits, and

(iii) if that contractor is a mobile practice, that fact and the addresses to which correspondence in connection with such provision may be sent.”.

(1)

Relevant amendments are in S.R. 2001 No. 370