Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

OPTOMETRISTS ACT 1940

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title and commencement

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   3.      Interpretation
            
   4.      This Act not to affect medical practitioners

   PART II -- The Optometrists Registration Board  

   5.      Establishment of Board
            
   6.      Tenure of office
            
   7.      Board to be a body corporate
            
   8.      Proceedings of the Board
            
   9.      Resignation
            
   10.     Disqualification
            
   11.     Vacancies
            
   12.     Deputy members
            
   13.     Meetings of the Board
            
   14.     Officers of the Board
            
   15.     Remuneration
            
   16.     Funds of the Board
            
   16A.    Accounts
            
   16B.    Audit
            
   16C.    Annual report
            
   17.     Rules
            
   18.     Conduct of proceedings on behalf of Board

   PART III -- The Register of Optometrists  

   19.     Register to be kept
            
   20.     Register open to inspection
            
   21.     Withdrawal of name from Register
            
   22.     Name of person may be re-entered in Register
            
   23.     Registrar to remove names of deceased persons from Register
            
   24.     Registrar to amend Register to insure accuracy
            
   25.     Publication of Register and evidentiary provisions
            
   25A.    Investigator
            
   25B.    Report of investigator
            
   25C.    Powers of investigator
            
   25D.    Warrant to enter premises
            
   25E.    Issue of warrant
            
   25F.    Execution of warrant
            
   25G.    Incriminating information, questions, or documents
            
   25H.    Failure to comply with investigation
            
   25I.    Obstruction of investigator
            
   26.     Registered optometrists may be suspended or be struck off Register
            
   27.     Board may require attendance at inquiries
            
   28.     Board may annul suspension or restore name to Register
            
   29.     Effect of suspension and of removal of name from Register
            
   30.     Person struck off Register to surrender certificate of registration to the Board
            
   31.     Review

   PART IV -- Registration of optometrists  

   32.     Practice of optometry by persons not registered prohibited
            
   33.     Effect of registration
            
   34.     Registration of persons practising as optometrists or opticians at the commencement of this Act
            
   35.     Qualifications for registration as optometrist

   PART V -- Miscellaneous  

   36.     Licences and licence fees
            
   37.     Optometrist making default in payment of licence fee may be struck off
            
   38.     Examinations and course of training
            
   39.     Executor or administrator of deceased optometrist may continue practice
            
   40.     Prohibition against use of drugs as method of measuring powers of vision
            
   41.     Provisions relating to practice of optometry by firms and companies
            
   42.     Offences
            
   43.     Board may apply for injunction
            
   44.     General penalty
            
   45.     Proceedings for offences
            
   46.     Provisions relating to prosecutions
            
   47.     Regulations
            
           Provisions that have not come into operation
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