National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973

[1951 c. 31.] The National Health Service Act 1951

58(1)In section 1 of the National Health Service Act 1951 (which authorises charges for certain dental and optical appliances), in subsection (1) for the words " Part II or Part IV of those Acts respectively" there shall be substituted the words " the National Health Service Acts 1946 to 1973 ".

(2)In subsection (2) of that section, for the words " under the said Part II " there shall be substituted the words " , otherwise than under Part IV of the said Acts of 1946 and 1947 ".

(3)In subsection (3)(a) of that section, for the words "the said Part II" where they first occur there shall be substituted the words " the National Health Service Acts 1946 to 1973 otherwise than under Part IV of the said Act of 1946 " and for those words in the second place where they occur there shall be substituted the words " those Acts ".

(4)In subsection (4) of that section for the words " Executive Council" there shall be substituted the words " Area Health Authority or Family Practitioner Committee ".

59(1)In the Schedule to that Act, at the end of the definition of " children's glasses " there shall be inserted the words " and which are supplied for a person who was, at the time of the examination or testing of sight leading to the supply of the glasses or of the first such examination or testing, under sixteen years of age or receiving full-time instruction in a school within the meaning of the Education Act 1944 or the Education (Scotland) Act 1962 ".

(2)In that Schedule, in the definition of " current specified cost", for the words " Part II of those Acts respectively" there shall be substituted the words " the National Health Service Acts 1946 to 1973 otherwise than under Part IV of the said Act of 1946 ".