27 Sale and supply of optical appliances
Opticians Act 1989 (1989 c 44) | Legislation

27  Sale and supply of optical appliances

[(1)     A person shall not sell—

(a)     any contact lens for use by any person who does not have a valid specification provided pursuant to section 25(5) above; or

(b)     subject to the following provisions of this section, any optical appliance or zero powered contact lens unless the sale is effected by or under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner, a registered optometrist or a registered dispensing optician.

(2)     Subsection (1) above shall not apply to any of the following sales—

(a)     a sale for a person who has attained the age of sixteen of spectacles which have two single vision lenses of the same positive spherical power not exceeding 4 dioptres where the sale is wholly for the purpose of correcting, remedying or relieving presbyopia;

(b)     a sale of an optical appliance intended for use as protection or cover for the eyes in sports if—

(i)     neither lens fitted to the appliance has a positive or negative spherical power exceeding 8 dioptres;

(ii)     the appliance is an appliance with a single vision lens or single visions lenses; and

(iii)     the appliance falls within any category of appliance specified in an order

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