All of Specsavers' joint venture companies (JVCs) must register with the General Optical Council, the regulator has ordered.
The GOC said it had opened an investigation into the matter after it received a complaint about unregistered Specsavers JVCs and subsequently made its policy on registration of corporate bodies clear to the multiple.
'Specsavers has now agreed to make sure that all its JVCs are registered as soon as possible. We welcome this decision and have now begun to process applications from previously unregistered JVCs,' said a GOC spokesperson.
Responding to the new requirements, a Specsavers spokesperson said: 'Following clarification received from the GOC in December, Specsavers has been working towards registering each individual store company in addition to the overall parent company registration.'
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