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Enforced by: GOC
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

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Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Self-Employed Person1 Trader1

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

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Companies Act 1985 85 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 62 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

The General Optical Council

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11 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.001 Constitution and functions of the Council.

s.002 The Education Committee.

s.003 The Companies Committee

s.004 The Investigation Committee

s.005 The Registration Committee

s.005 The Registration Appeals Committee

s.005 The Standards Committee

s.005 The Fitness to Practise Committee

s.005 The Hearings Panel

s.006 General power to appoint committees.

s.006 Powers of delegation

Part 2

FITNESS TO PRACTISE

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14 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.013 The Council’s duty to provide guidance on fitness to practise

s.013 Information to be provided to specified state professionals

s.013 The Council’s power to require disclosure of information

s.013 Notification and disclosure by the Council

s.013 Allegations

s.013 Provisions supplementary to section 13D

s.013 Powers of the Fitness to Practise Committee

s.013 Provisions supplementary to section 13F

s.013 Financial penalty order

s.013 Power to order immediate suspension etc. after a finding of impairment of fitness to practise

s.013 Removal from a register on grounds of fraud or error

s.013 Restoration of names to a register

s.013 Interim orders

s.013 Provisions supplementary to section 13L

Part 2

Registration and Training of Opticians

2 of 15 sections shown

s.009 List of bodies corporate carrying on business as opticians. Regulated

s.010 Indemnity arrangements for individual registrants and persons applying for their name to be registered Regulated

Maintain adequate professional indemnity insuranceSelf-Employed Person

13 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.007 Registers of opticians.

s.008 Qualifications for being registered.

s.008 Registers of students

s.008 Visiting opticians from relevant European States: registers

s.008 Visiting optometrists: entitlement to registration

s.008 Visiting dispensing opticians: entitlement to registration

s.008 Section 8: further provision relating to specified state qualifications

s.010 General provisions as to registers and lists.

s.011 Publication of registers and proof of registration

s.011 Requirement for continuing education and training

s.011 Failure to satisfy requirements imposed under a scheme

s.012 Education and training

s.013 Supervision of training establishments and qualifying assessments .

Part 3

PROCEEDINGS AND APPEALS

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8 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.023 Service of notification

s.023 Procedure of Fitness to Practise Committee and Registration Appeals Committee

s.023 Powers of the Council to make rules

s.023 Legal advisers

s.023 Other advisers

s.023 Registration appeals

s.023 Appeals from the Registration Appeals Committee and the Fitness to Practise Committee

s.023 Date decision takes effect

Part 3

Disciplinary Proceedings

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10 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.014 Disciplinary orders.

s.015 Suspension orders.

s.016 Penalty orders.

s.017 Powers of Disciplinary Committee.

s.018 Restoration of names erased as result of disciplinary cases etc.

s.019 Erasure from register and list on grounds of fraud or error.

s.020 Service of notifications.

s.021 Procedure of Disciplinary Committee.

s.022 Assessors to Disciplinary Committee.

s.023 Appeals in disciplinary and other cases.

Part 4

Restrictions On Testing Of Sight, Fitting Of Contact Lenses, Sale And Supply Of Optical Appliances And Use Of Titles And Descriptions

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8 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.024 Testing of sight.

s.025 Fitting of contact lenses.

s.026 Duties to be performed on sight testing.

s.027 Sale and supply of optical appliances.

s.028 Penalty for pretending to be registered etc.

s.029 Provision as to death or bankruptcy of registered optician.

s.030 Offences by bodies corporate.

s.030 Legal proceedings

Part 5

Miscellaneous And Supplementary

1 of 11 sections shown

s.032 Expenses and accounts of the Council. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

GOC must keep accounts, have them audited, and publish them annuallyStatutory regulator

10 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.031 Miscellaneous matters with respect to which rules may be made.

s.031 Rules

s.032 Annual reports, statistical reports and strategic plans

s.033 Default powers of Privy Council.

s.034 Subordinate legislation procedure.

s.035 Privy Council quorum and documents.

s.036 Interpretation.

s.037 Consequential amendments and repeals.

s.038 Commencement.

s.039 Short title and extent.

Schedules

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25 other schedules

s.sch001 The Council shall consist of— (a) nine persons nominated by...

s.sch001 The registrar shall be appointed by the Council and shall...

s.sch001 (1) Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the...

s.sch001 (1) In exercising their functions, the Council shall—

s.sch001 Subject to any provision made by or under this Act,...

s.sch001 Rules under section 2(2), 3(2), 4(3), 5(2), 5A(3), 5B(2) and...

s.sch001 Rules under sections 2 to 5D may make provision for...

s.sch001 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the Privy Council may...

s.sch001 Membership: general

s.sch001 Matters for the order of the Privy Council under section 1(4)

s.sch001 Registration of members’ private interests

s.sch001 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, any person nominated by...

s.sch001 (1) The persons chosen to represent the registrants on the...

s.sch001 Of the persons nominated by the assessing bodies—

s.sch001 The four registered medical practitioners on the Council shall be...

s.sch001 (1) On 1st January 1992, and at the end of...

s.sch001 (1) A member of the Council may at any time,...

s.sch001 (1) The chairman of the Council shall be nominated by...

s.sch001 (1) A person who has been chairman of the Council...

s.sch001a Interpretation

s.sch001a Appealable registration decisions

s.sch001a Notice of appealable registration decisions

s.sch001a Appeals from an appealable registration decision

s.sch001a Extension of time for appealing

s.schedule/1/paragraph/ . . . . . . . . . ....

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