Article D4362-19 of the French Public Health Code
November 2, 2023
Opticians shall refrain, outside their place of practice, from advertising or communicating to the public their ability to determine refraction.
Opticians shall refrain, outside their place of practice, from advertising or communicating to the public their ability to determine refraction.
The optician carries out all the measurements required for the manufacture of optical equipment. These measurements can be taken remotely.
The optician-mutician, whose professional residence is identified, may, at the request of the doctor or the patient, dispense corrective eye lenses and corrective lenses to patients in their own homes or admitted to public or private health or medico-social establishments.
The following is punishable by a fifth-class fine for a hearing aid acoustician: 1° Issue a hearing aid without a prior medical prescription ; 2° Carrying out their activity in premises that do not meet the requirements of article L. 4361-6.
Hire, peddling, itinerant sales, so-called demonstration sales, sales by canvassing and mail order sales of hearing aids are punishable by the fine laid down for fifth class offences.
Repeated offences under this chapter are punishable by the penalties set out in article 132-11 of the French Penal Code.
Prosthetists and orthotists who fit orthopaedic appliances to sick or disabled people include the following professions: 1° Orthoprosthetists ; 2° Pedorthists 3° Ocularists 4° Epithesists; 5° Orthopaedic orthotists.
The profession of ortho-prosthetist is taken to mean any person who makes external orthopaedic fittings to measure with an impression or mould for a sick or disabled person with an amputation of all or part of a limb, or with an osteoarticular, muscular or neurological deficiency. The fitting covers the design, measurement with impression or moulding, manufacture, fitting, adaptation, delivery of the appliance, checking of its tolerance and immediate functional…
The profession of chiropodist is taken to mean any person who makes orthopaedic fittings to measure for the foot, using orthopaedic shoes made to measure and moulded, or leg braces moulded for mass-produced or orthopaedic shoes, for a sick or disabled person with either a partial amputation of the foot, or an osteoarticular, muscular or neurological deficiency of the foot or the distal end of the leg, or of these…
Any person who fits a sick or disabled person with a non-functional eyeball or an orbital cavity following enucleation or evisceration, using a custom-made external ocular prosthesis, is considered to be practising the profession of ocularist. The fitting covers the design, taking of measurements with possible moulding, manufacture, fitting, delivery of the appliance, checking of its tolerance and immediate functional effectiveness, monitoring of the appliance, including repolishing and monitoring of…
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