40. An optometrist may not share fees or benefits resulting from the practice of the profession, except with another optometrist or with a professional partnership within which the optometrist practises or with a person who holds voting rights related to stocks or shares in such partnership, provided the income sharing corresponds to a division of their respective services and responsibilities.
The optometrist may, however, allocate, in whole or in part, income to the professional partnership within which the optometrist practises.
515-2018O.C. 515-2018, s. 40.