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O-7, r. 5.1 - Code of ethics of optometrists
Section 41
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41. An optometrist is in a situation of conflict of interest if the optometrist practises optometry as an employee of a natural person or organization selling or manufacturing ophthalmic products or as partner, shareholder or officer of a partnership or joint-stock company selling or manufacturing such products, except in the case, as the case may be, of
(1) an optometrist;
(2) a professional partnership;
(3) a public body, other than an institution, referred to in the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information (chapter A-2.1);
(4) an institution;
(5) an enterprise that engages the optometrist’s services solely for the purpose of providing optometric services to the employees of that enterprise;
(6) a retailer that operates an optical department referred to in subparagraph a of the sixth paragraph of section 25 of the Optometry Act (chapter O-7) when the optometrist is responsible for its administration.
In force: 2018-05-17
41. An optometrist is in a situation of conflict of interest if the optometrist practises optometry as an employee of a natural person or organization selling or manufacturing ophthalmic products or as partner, shareholder or officer of a partnership or joint-stock company selling or manufacturing such products, except in the case, as the case may be, of
(1) an optometrist;
(2) a professional partnership;
(3) a public body, other than an institution, referred to in the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information (chapter A-2.1);
(4) an institution;
(5) an enterprise that engages the optometrist’s services solely for the purpose of providing optometric services to the employees of that enterprise;
(6) a retailer that operates an optical department referred to in subparagraph a of the sixth paragraph of section 25 of the Optometry Act (chapter O-7) when the optometrist is responsible for its administration.
