means the Fiji Optometric Association affiliated with international professional bodies such as the World Council of Optometry and the Asia Pacific Council of Optometry;

means the Fiji Optometrists Board established under section 3;

means a lens that is designed to be placed on the eye for the purpose of correcting vision;

means a practitioner who is trained to practice the dispensing of contact lenses;

means a non-corrective lens that is designed to be placed on the eye for the purpose of changing the appearance of the eye;

means continuing professional development by which optometrists and dispensing opticians maintain and enhance their knowledge and skills related to their respective profession;

means specific topical diagnostic drugs used to aid optometrists in their examination of the human eye;

means a person who is qualified and trained to practice optical dispensing;

means a person who substitutes temporarily for another in the same profession;

has the same meaning as in the Medical and Dental Practitioner Act 2010;

means a person who suffers from mental illness as defined under the Mental Health Act 2010;

means the Minister responsible for health;

means a person who is neither a registered optometrist nor a registered dispensing optician under this Act;

means the study and use of drugs to diagnose and treat diseases of the eye;

means the practice performed by dispensing opticians under section 25;

means a medical practitioner specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye;

means a person who is qualified and trained to practice optometry;

means the practice of—

• (a)examining the human eye and the adnexa for any disease, and the treatment using therapeutic drugs in accordance with section 50;
• (b)examining the human eye through the employment of objective and subjective procedures, including the use of specific topical diagnostic drugs in accordance with section 50, and instruments, tools, equipment, implements, visual aids, apparatuses, machines, ocular exercises and related devices for the purpose of determining the condition and acuity of human vision to correct and improve human vision;
• (c)using authorised diagnostic pharmaceutical agents and other preventive or corrective measures or procedures for the treatment, aid, correction, rehabilitation or relief of the human eye, or to attain maximum vision and comfort;
• (d)analysing the ocular functions and diagnosing ocular diseases;
• (e)conducting orthoptic treatment, providing orthoptics and other devices and procedures to aid and correct abnormalities of human vision and installing prosthetic devices;
• (f)importing and selling ophthalmic products, including ophthalmic frames, ophthalmic lenses, prisms, contact lenses and ophthalmic accessories and solutions for the optical correction and treatment of defects, deficiencies and abnormalities of vision;
• (g)prescribing and dispensing ophthalmic frames, lenses, prisms, contact lenses and their accessories and solutions, low vision aids and similar appliances and devices; or
• (h)counselling of patients in respect of vision, eye care and hygiene, industrial related optical requirements and use of visual display units;

means the practice of correcting defective vision by means of exercises in order to strengthen weak eye muscles;

means a person who seeks optical assistance from an optometrist or a dispensing optician;

means the permanent secretary responsible for health;

means the conduct or an act in relation to the practice of optometry or optical dispensing which, having regard to all the circumstances, shall reasonably be regarded by the optometric profession as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional;

refers to medical practitioners;

means a pair of frames bearing lenses that are not prescribed by an optometrist or ophthalmologist;

means the Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Register kept and maintained under section 15;

means a person who is registered as a dispensing optician in the Register and issued a certificate of registration under section 21;

means a person who is registered as an optometrist in the Register and issued with a certificate of registration under section 21;

means all the documents pertaining to the development, including reports of case studies, research or screening of mass population;

means the secretary to the Board appointed under section 14; and

means specific locally administered drugs used by optometrists in treating commonly diagnosed eye diseases.