PART 2 Amendments to the Ophthalmic Regulations

Transitional provisions
41. (1) A corporate optician whose name is included in the ophthalmic list of a Local Health Board on 31 January 2006, which has not already notified that Local Health Board of any matter arising on or before that day of which these Regulations require notification by a corporate optician, must notify that Local Health Board of any such matter by 1 August 2006.
(2) Any contractor—
(a) who was named in the ophthalmic list of the Local Health Board as a mobile practice on 31 January 2006; or
(b) whose name was included in the ophthalmic list of the Local Health Board and provided mobile services in its area immediately before 1 February 2006,
may continue to do so until 1 May 2006 and, if the contractor wishes to continue to provide mobile services in the area of that Local Health Board after that date, the contractor must apply by 1 May 2006 to that Local Health Board to make arrangements with the contractor to provide mobile services.
(3) If that contractor makes an application in accordance with paragraph (2), the contractor may continue to provide mobile services in the area of that Local Health Board, pursuant to this regulation, until such time as that Local Health Board determines whether or not to make arrangements with the contractor.
(4) Before 1 August 2006, in addition to the procedure laid out in paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 1 to the Ophthalmic Regulations, a claim by a contractor under paragraph 9(1) of that Schedule may be signed by an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician—
(a) whose name is included in a supplementary list or an ophthalmic list; and
(b) who is employed by that contractor, provided that he or she identifies on that claim—
(i) the Local Health Board in whose supplementary list his or her name is included; and
(ii) the contractor on whose behalf he or she is signing.