Chapter 1 General Provisions
Article 1
Citizens of the R.O.C. who have taken the optician examination and obtained a passing score and who hold the Certificate of Optician pursuant to this Act may work as opticians.
Citizens of the R.O.C. who have taken the optician assistant examination and obtained a passing score and who hold the Certificate of Optical technician pursuant to this Act may work as optical technicians.
The “optometric personnel” referred to in this Act include the opticians and optic technicians as mentioned in the previous two paragraphs.
Article 2
Those who have graduated from the optometry department of a public or registered private junior college or above, or an overseas junior college recognized by the Ministry of Education, completed an internship with satisfactory results, and obtained a graduation certificate may take the optician examination.
Those who have graduated from the medical optic technique or optometry department of a public or registered private medical vocational school, or an overseas medical vocational school recognized by the Ministry of Education, completed an internship with satisfactory results, and obtained a graduation certificate may take the optical technician examination.
Article 3
The competent authorities referred to in this Act are: the Ministry of Health and Welfare at the central level; the municipal government at the municipal level; and the county (city) government at the county (city) level.
Article 4
An application for an optometric personnel certificate, consisting of an application form and the qualification supporting documents, shall be submitted to the central competent authority for the issuance of the certificate.
Article 5
The titles of optician and optical technician shall not be used by persons not holding an optometric personnel certificate.
Article 6
Those whose optometric personnel certificates have been annulled pursuant to this Act as a penalty shall not work as optometric personnel.