Health Services Act 1980

Exemption from charges for dental or optical appliances

2 (1) Paragraph 2 of the said Schedule 12 shall be amended as provided in this paragraph.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1), under the heading " Glasses other than children's glasses", the sub-heading in the first column beginning "The lenses" shall be numbered "(i)" and the word "Frames" shall become a sub-heading numbered " (ii)" and in the definition of "children's glasses", for the words after "person", there shall be substituted the words " who, at the time of the testing of sight leading to the supply of the glasses or of the first such testing, was under 16 years of age or was under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education ; and ".

(3) For sub-paragraph (4)(a), there shall be substituted—

“(a) was under 16 years of age or was under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education; or”.

(4) For sub-paragraph (5)(a), there shall be substituted—

“(a) the person for whom the glasses are supplied was at the relevant time of the age of 10 years or more and either under 16 years of age or under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education ; and”.

(5) In sub-paragraph (8), after the word "replacement", where it first occurs, there shall be inserted the words " and, in the case of dentures, to their being relined or adjusted or having additions made to them, ".