O-7, r. 14.1 - Regulation respecting the standards for the issue and holding of permits authorizing an optometrist to administer and prescribe medications and provide eye care

Updated to 1 April 2024

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chapter O-7, r. 14.1

Regulation respecting the standards for the issue and holding of permits authorizing an optometrist to administer and prescribe medications and provide eye care

Optometry Act

(chapter O-7, s. 19.2).

DIVISION I ISSUE OF PERMITS

O.C. 846-2018, Div. I.

1. A permit authorizing an optometrist to administer medications for eye examination purposes only and a permit authorizing an optometrist to administer and prescribe medications for therapeutic purposes and provide eye care are issued to a member of the Ordre des optométristes du Québec who

(1)  has submitted to the secretary of the Order an application for a permit on the form provided for that purpose;

(2)  has paid the fees prescribed by the board of directors of the Order for the issue of the permit;

(3)  has successfully completed, during the 4 years preceding the year of the application, under a training program offered by an educational institution that issues a diploma meeting the requirements for the permit issued by the Order or as part of another training program recognized as equivalent by the board of directors, a training period that includes a minimum of 145 hours of theoretical and clinical courses in eye health and the pharmacological treatment of certain ocular pathologies;

(4)  has successfully completed training in Basic Life Support (BLS) for health care professionals of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 1.

2. The permits referred to in section 1 are also issued to a member of the Order who meets the other conditions prescribed in that section, although the member’s training has been acquired prior to the period referred to in paragraph 3 of that section or has not reached the level of training referred to in that paragraph, provided the member

(1)  has successfully completed the training program provided for in section 3;

(2)  holds, outside Québec, a legal authorization to administer medications for eye examination purposes and to administer and prescribe medications for therapeutic purposes and provide eye care following terms and conditions comparable to those covered by the Regulation respecting the medications that may be administered and prescribed by an optometrist and respecting the eye care that may be provided by an optometrist (chapter O-7, r. 11.1).

O.C. 846-2018, s. 2.

3. The training program must be approved by the board of directors and it must include a minimum of 145 hours of theoretical and clinical courses in eye health and in the pharmacological treatment of certain ocular pathologies, offered by the École d’optométrie of the Université de Montréal or by another educational institution whose standards comply with those of the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 3.

DIVISION II STANDARDS FOR HOLDING A PERMIT

O.C. 846-2018, Div. II; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

4. An optometrist who holds one of the permits referred to in section 1 must send to the Order, in the manner and form established by the Order, not later than the 30th day following the end of each full reference period where the optometrist is entered on the roll, a declaration indicating whether the optometrist carried out the activities authorized by each permit during that period.

An optometrist who has not carried out those activities must, during the subsequent reference period, successfully complete the refresher program approved by the board of directors and provided for in section 5.

In this Division, “reference period” means any 3-year period starting on the date determined by the board of directors.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 4; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

5. The refresher program must include 30 hours of theoretical or clinical training related to the subject areas referred to in section 3.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 5; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

6. An optometrist who is in the situation described in the second paragraph of section 4 and who is re-entered on the roll 12 months or less before the end of the reference period during which the optometrist must successfully complete the refresher program has an additional period of 12 months to do so.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 6; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

7. The Order notifies a notice to the optometrist who fails to comply with this Division. The notice indicates

(1)  the nature of the optometrist’s failure;

(2)  the 6-month period that the optometrist has from the date of the notification of the notice to remedy the failure and provide proof thereof;

(3)  the sanction to which the optometrist is subject if the optometrist does not remedy the failure within the time prescribed.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 7; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

8. Where the optometrist does not remedy the failure within the period prescribed by section 7, the board of directors, after giving the optometrist an opportunity to submit written observations, suspends the permit referred to in section 1 that is held by the optometrist.

The Order notifies a notice of suspension to the optometrist and informs the optometrist that the optometrist is subject to the revocation of the permit if the optometrist does not remedy the failure before the end of the reference period during which the permit is suspended. The suspension is in force from the time it is notified.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 8; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

9. At the end of the reference period during which the permit referred to in section 1 is suspended, the board of directors revokes the permit of the optometrist who has not remedied the failure indicated in the notice provided for in section 7. The Order notifies a notice of revocation to the optometrist.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 9; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

10. An optometrist whose permit has been revoked must again meet the conditions set out in Division I for the issue of the permit.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 10; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

11. (Replaced).

O.C. 846-2018, s. 11; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

12. (Replaced).

O.C. 846-2018, s. 12; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 1.

DIVISION III TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL

O.C. 846-2018, Div. III.

13. This Regulation replaces the Regulation respecting the standards for the issue and holding of the permit authorizing an optometrist to administer medications (chapter O-7, r. 13) and the Regulation respecting the standards for the issue and holding of the permit authorizing an optometrist to administer and prescribe medications for therapeutic purposes and provide eye care (chapter O-7, r. 14).

O.C. 846-2018, s. 13.

14. An optometrist who holds only the permit issued under the Regulation respecting the standards for the issue and holding of the permit authorizing an optometrist to administer medications (chapter O-7, r. 13) is deemed to have obtained the issue of that permit pursuant to section 1.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 14; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 2.

15. An optometrist who holds the permit issued under the Regulation respecting the standards for the issue and holding of the permit authorizing an optometrist to administer and prescribe medications for therapeutic purposes and provide eye care (chapter O-7, r. 14) is deemed to have obtained the issue of the permits referred to in section 1.

O.C. 846-2018, s. 15; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 3.

16. (Revoked).

O.C. 846-2018, s. 16; O.C. 1655-2023, s. 4.

17. (Omitted).

O.C. 846-2018, s. 17.

REFERENCES

O.C. 846-2018, 2018 G.O. 2, 2763

O.C. 1655-2023, 2023 G.O. 2, 2997