Section 3: Professional acts

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…

In the event of loss or breakage of corrective ametropic lenses, where an emergency is established and in the absence of a suitable medical solution, the optician may exceptionally issue new equipment without a prescription after carrying out a refractive examination. The optician gives the patient the result of the refractive examination carried out and forwards it by any appropriate means to the prescriber or to the doctor designated by…