Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953

5 Duties of education authorities in Scotland as to dental treatment

(1) It shall be the duty of every education authority to make such arrangements as are necessary for securing that there are available for pupils in attendance at any public school and young persons in attendance at any junior college or other educational establishment under their management comprehensive facilities for free dental treatment provided either—

(a) by persons employed or engaged by, and at the expense of, the authority, either regularly (whether whole-time or part-time) or for the purposes of particular cases; or

(b) under arrangements made by a Regional Hospital Board within the meaning of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947;

or partly in the one way and partly in the other; and every education authority shall have power to make arrangements for rendering available to other pupils in attendance at any educational establishment under their management any facilities which they have caused to be made available in the discharge of the duty imposed on them by the foregoing provisions of this subsection.

(2) Subsections (4) to (7) of section fifty-one of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1946 (which provide for encouraging pupils to take advantage of facilities for medical treatment provided under that section, for the medical supervision and treatment of pupils being educated under special arrangements or at schools and other educational establishments not under the management of an education authority, and for the furnishing of information to the Secretary of State) shall have effect as if the references to the facilities mentioned in subsection (3) of that section, to medical treatment provided under that section and to functions of the education authority under that section included respectively references to the facilities rendered available in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section, to dental treatment provided under that subsection and to functions of an education authority under that subsection.

(3) In subsection (1) of section one hundred and forty-three of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1946, in the definition of " medical treatment" the words " or by any person registered under the Dentists Act, 1878 " are hereby repealed.

(4) This section shall be construed as one with the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1939 to 1949, and may be cited together with those Acts as the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1939 to 1953.

(5) This section shall extend to Scotland only.