The Optometrists Board

*	All registrants are reminded to renew your annual practising certificates that will expire on 30 June each year. In accordance with section 16 of the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance, no registrant should practise his/her profession in Hong Kong unless he/she holds a practising certificate that is then in force.
*	All registrants should keep the Secretary to the Optometrists Board informed of your updated correspondence/ practising addresses within two months of such change.
*	Companies carrying on the business of practising optometry are reminded to provide the requested information with the Secretary to the Optometrists Board by completing the prescribed statement form within 14 days after 1 July in each year.
*	Under section 11 of the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance, a list of the names, addresses, qualifications and dates of the qualifications of all persons whose names appear on the register has to be published annually in the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette. The correspondence address that you provide to the Optometrists Board will appear in the Gazette and on the relevant Government website where the e-Gazette is published. The names and the registration numbers of registrants will also be posted on the website (www.smp-council.org.hk/op/english/index.htm) of the Optometrists Board. The main purpose of publishing such information is to protect the public by creating a public record of persons who are registered optometrists and are entitled to practise the profession in Hong Kong.
*	The Optometrists Board has devised the guideline for assessing professional training for the purpose of restoration to the Optometrists Register.
*	Implementation of Five-day Week Duty Pattern for the Optometrists Board Secretariat The Secretariat of the Optometrists Board will move to the five-day week duty pattern commencing from 1 January 2007. The new opening hours of the Secretariat and its registration office will be from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Mondays and 9:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. from Tuesdays to Fridays, with meal break fixed at 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.. Other service arrangements, e.g. handling of registration applications and correspondences to the Optometrists Board by mail, payment of registration fees and other related expenses, handling of enquiries and complaints, etc. will remain unchanged and will be provided during the above-mentioned new opening hours. In case you have any enquiries arising from the five-day week duty pattern, please contact the Secretariat at 2527 8360 and/or the registration office at 2961 8647.

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