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HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 62

62.(1) Every Health and Social Services Board shall, in accordance with
regulations, make arrangements in respect of its area with medical
practitioners having the prescribed qualifications, ophthalmic opticians and
dispensing opticians for securing the testing of sight by such medical
practitioners and ophthalmic opticians and the supply by ophthalmic opticians
and dispensing opticians of optical appliances, and the services provided in
accordance with such arrangements are in this Order referred to as "general
ophthalmic services".

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), regulations may make provision as to the
arrangements to be made under this Article, and shall include provision

(a)for the preparation and publication of lists of medical practitioners,
ophthalmic opticians and dispensing opticians respectively who undertake to
provide general ophthalmic services;

(b)for conferring a right, subject to the provisions of this Order relating to
the disqualification of persons providing services, on any medical
practitioner resident in Northern Ireland and having the prescribed
qualifications, ophthalmic optician or dispensing optician who wishes to be
included in the appropriate list, to be so included;

(c)for conferring on any medical practitioner, who is dissatisfied with a
determination that he does not possess the qualifications prescribed under
this Article, a right of appeal to a committee appointed by the Ministry, and
for making provision for any matter for which it appears to the Ministry to be
necessary or expedient to make provision in consequence of the conferring of
that right;

(d)for conferring on any person a right to choose, in accordance with the
prescribed procedure, the medical practitioner or ophthalmic optician by whom
his sight is to be tested or from whom any prescription for the supply of
optical appliances is to be obtained, and the ophthalmic or dispensing
optician who is to supply the appliances;

(e)for the making and recovery by persons providing general ophthalmic
services of charges in respect of

(i)the extra expense involved in the supply, at the request of the person
supplied, as part of those services, of any optical appliance which is of a
more expensive type than that which would normally be supplied, or the
replacement or repair of any such appliance; or

(ii)the replacement or repair of any optical appliance supplied as part of the
services aforesaid, if it is determined in the prescribed manner that the
replacement or repair is necessitated by an act or omission of the person
supplied or (if it occurred when he was under sixteen years of age) of his or
of the person having charge of him when it occurred; and

(f)for [the determination of] the remuneration of persons providing or
participating in the provision of general ophthalmic services.

(3) Before making any regulations under this Article, the Ministry shall
consult such organisations as appear to the Minister to be representative of
medical practitioners practising as ophthalmic medical practitioners,
ophthalmic opticians and dispensing opticians.

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