The provisions of articles R. 4331-12 to R. 4331-15 are applicable to the provision of services by opticians who are required to make a declaration under article L. 4362-7.
The commission of opticians in the region designated by order of the Minister for Health comprises : 1° The Regional Director for Youth, Sport and Social Cohesion or his/her representative, as Chairman ; 2° The Director General of the Regional Health Agency or his representative; 3° The academic regional rector or his representative; 4° A doctor ; 5° Two opticians. An order of the Regional Prefect, issued on the recommendation…
The regional directorate for youth, sport and social cohesion provides the committee’s secretariat.
The competent authority’s assessment of the applicant’s command of the French language results in a decision that may be appealed to the administrative court with territorial jurisdiction.
The commission is composed of 1° A representative of the Minister for Health, Chairman ; 2° A representative of the Minister for Higher Education; 3° A representative of the Minister for Trade and Craft Trades; 4° A doctor specialising in ophthalmology, appointed and his or her alternate by order of the Minister for Health, on the recommendation of the opticians’ commission of the Higher Council for the Paramedical Professions; 5°…
The Minister for Health will issue to the persons designated by the committee a certificate authorising them to practise the profession of retail optician-muntiliner, notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 4362-1.
The issue of corrective ocular contact lenses by a spectacle optician to a person wearing them for the first time is subject to the presentation of a medical or orthoptic prescription stating the correction and the essential characteristics of these products, the list of which is set by order of the Minister for Health. These prescriptions are valid for one year.
The optician-mutician may adapt the optical corrections of eye contact lens prescriptions dating from less than : -one year, for patients under 16 years of age; -three years for a medical prescription and two years for an orthoptic prescription, for patients aged 16 and over; The prescriber may limit the length of time during which the optician-mutician may adapt the prescription by expressly mentioning this on the prescription, particularly in…
The dispensing of ametropia corrective lenses by an optician is subject to the presentation or verification of the existence of a medical or orthoptic prescription for these products. The medical prescription is valid for : -one year, for patients under the age of 16 ; -five years, for patients aged between 16 and 42; -three years, for patients aged over 42. The orthoptic prescription is valid for two years. A…
The optician who carries out a refraction during the first dispensing following the prescription of corrective lenses may not adapt this prescription. The optician may adapt valid corrective lens prescriptions when renewing a prescription, after carrying out a refraction examination and unless the prescriber expressly states otherwise on the prescription. The prescriber may limit the period during which the optician may adapt the prescription by expressly mentioning this on the…
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