In Ireland the profession of optometry was first properly addressed by the government with the Opticians Act 1956, which created the Opticians Board to maintain the register of those entitled to practise as an optometrist, and to make the Rules under which the profession operates. Predating the equivalent act in the UK by a year, the Opticians Act set up provision for separate registers for ophthalmic opticians and dispensing opticians and set out rules on the sale/dispensing of spectacles and strict definitions of what constitutes the same.
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