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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

7: Miscellaneous provisions, consequential amendments and repeals, and transitional provisions

166   Reference to optometrists and opticians in other enactments




    166 Reference to optometrists and opticians in other enactments
Every reference in any enactment to an optometrist or to a registered
optometrist or a dispensing optician or a registered dispensing optician must,
unless a different intention appears, be taken to be a reference to a person
who is, or is deemed to be, registered under this Act with the Optometrists and
Dispensing Opticians Board and who is practising optometry or, as the case
requires, optical dispensing in accordance with his or her scope of
practice.

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