General Ophthalmic Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Use of disqualified name

15.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a contractor shall not use in any manner whatsoever the name or part of the name, either alone or in combination with any other words or letters of, or used by, any person so long as that person is disqualified by the Tribunal from inclusion in any ophthalmic list by virtue of paragraphs 5, 7, 9(5), 10(1) or 12(2) of Schedule 11 to the Order.

(2) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) shall prevent a contractor other than a body corporate from using his own name, or being a body corporate from using the name by which it is enrolled in the register maintained pursuant to the provisions of the Opticians Act 1989.