Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13)

Part 2 General dental services, general ophthalmic services, personal dental services etc.

11 Detection of vision problems in children

After section 38A of the 1978 Act, insert—

“38B Detection of vision problems in children

(1) It is the duty of the Scottish Ministers, to such extent as they consider necessary to meet all reasonable requirements, to provide for the detection of vision problems in children.

(2) In this section, “children” means persons under the age of 16 years.”.