AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Optometrists Ordinance 1958

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 14 of 1958

	The recently introduced Optometrists Ordinance contains the usual provisions regarding qualifications and registration reciprocity for determining the eligibility of persons to apply for registration in the A.C.T.

	However a case exists of a person who had not at any time applied for registration in any State or Dominion as an Optometrist although eligible to do so under their pre-examination apprenticeship requirements.  Prior to the introduction of the present Ordinance there was no necessity for such a person to seek registration in the A.C.T. or elsewhere.

	This proposed minor amendment to the Ordinance is necessary to permit the registration of anyone who is considered to be a fit and proper person and has been practising in the A.C.T. for at least five years preceding the introduction of the Ordinance.