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Statutory Instruments
OPTICIANS
Made
21st January 1991
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 21st day of January 1991
By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
Whereas in pursuance of the Opticians Act 1989(1)the General Optical Council have made the Registration and Enrolment (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1990 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;
Now, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said rules into consideration, are hereby pleased to approve the same.
This Order may be cited as the General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment No. 2) Rules) Order of Council 1991.
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
In pursuance of their powers under section 10 of the Opticians Act 1989, the General Optical Council hereby ake the following rules-
1. These rules may be cited as the Registration and Enrolment (Amendment No. 2) Rules, 1990.
2. The Registration and Enrolment Rules 1976 (scheduled to the General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment Rules) Order of Council 1977)(2) shall be further amended in the Appendix to the Rules by replacing the figures £35, £20 and £12, on each occasion where they appear, by the figures £40, £23 and £14 respectively.
3. These rules shall come into operation, on the 1st day of April, 1991 and shall apply to applications for registration, enrolment, retention, restoration and transfer to take effect on or after the 1st day of April, 1991 whether made before, on or after that date.
Sealed on the 20th September, 1990
Attested by:-
L.S.
E. G. Woodward
Member of the Council
G. D. Miller
Member of the Council
R. D. Wilshin
Registrar
(This note is not part of the Order)
The rules approved by this Order increase with effect from 1st April 1991, 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 im, restoration to and transfer within the registers of opticians. The fees were last fixed in April 1990, and the level of increase on this occasion is 15 per cent.
S. I. 1977/176, as amended by S. I. 1979/1638, 1980/1936, 1981/1812, 1983/1, 1985/2024, 1987/1887 and 1990/270.
