The hearing was told of how Edinburgh-based John Thomas Fox was first registered in 1989, tested the sight of five patients between May 2 and September 15 last year when not registered.
For the Council Christopher Alder told the panel that the obligation to register was 'the cornerstone' of which the profession was based, and that failure to do so 'must be a falling short what is expected of the professional'.
Fox told the hearing that he did not receive the reminders sent to his home address, and explained that his company had changed its policy in 2002 regarding the payment of registration, so that its professionals now had more responsibility for keeping their registration up to date.
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