The General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 1990

Made: 14th February 1990

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 14th day of February 1990 By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable 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) Rules) Order of Council 1990.

SCHEDULE — The Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules 1990

In pursuance of their powers under section 7 of the Opticians Act 1958 the General Optical Council hereby make the following rules:

• (1) These rules may be cited as the Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules, 1990.

• (2) The Registration and Enrolment Rules 1976 scheduled to the General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment Rules) Order of Council 1977[^f00002] shall be further amended in the Appendix to the Rules by replacing the figures £30, £16 and £10, on each occasion where they appear, by the figures £35, £20 and £12, respectively.

• (3) These rules shall come into operation on the 1st day of April 1990 and shall apply to applications for registration, enrolment, retention, restoration and transfer to take effect on or after the 1st day of April 1990 whether made before, on or after that date.

Signed

G.I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The rules approved by this Order increase with effect from 1st April 1990, the fees payable to the General Optical Council by ophthalmic and dispensing opticians and bodies corporate carrying on business as opticians for registration, enrolment, retention, restoration and transfer. The fees were last fixed in 1987, and the average order of increase is 20%.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1958 c. 32.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1977/176, as amended by S.I. 1979/1638, 1980/1936, 1981/1821, 1983/1, 1985/2024 and 1987/1887.