AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR HEALTH

OPTOMETRISTS REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 20 of 1982

The Minister for Health has made regulations under the Optometrists Ordinance 1956.

The Ordinance previously authorized the registration of a properly qualified person as an optometrist, on payment of a fee of $2 and the issue of a permit as a locum tenens for an optometrist without a fee.  The Ordinance has been amended and now requires that fees for registration and other matters be prescribed in regulations.  Regulations have therefore been made to prescribe these fees which amongst other things increase the fee for registration as an optometrist and introduce a fee for temporary registration which has replaced the locum tenens permit.

The new fees are as follows:

Sub-section 15(1)	fee for registration as an optometrist	$30	
			
Sub-section 18(1)	annual registration fee payable on or before 1 July each year	$20	
			
Sub-section 20(1)	fee for provisional registration which may be granted pending full registration	$ 5	
			
Sub-section 21(2)	fee for temporary registration as a locum tenens	$20	
			
Sub-section 21(3)	fee for renewal of temporary registration	$20	
			
Sub-section 22(2)	fee for special registration for research or educational purposes	$50	
			
Sub-section 22(3)	fee for renewal of special registration	$50	
			
Sub-section 22B(3)	fee for alteration of the Register at the request of a person	$ 5	
			
Section 27B	fee for the issue of a duplicate certificate or registration	$10	
			
Sub-section 47A(1)	fee for inspection of an entry in the Register	$ 1	
			
Sub-section 47A(2)	fee for a certified copy of an entry in the Register	$ 2