Any local health authority may, with the approval of the Minister, and shall to such extent as the Minister may direct, make arrangements for the giving of advice on contraception, the medical examination of persons seeking advice on contraception for the purpose of determining what advice to give, and the supply of contraceptive substances or contraceptive appliances.
A local health authority may, with the approval of the Minister, recover from persons to whom advice is given under this section, or to whom substances or appliances are supplied thereunder, or from such persons of any class or description such charges (if any) as the authority consider reasonable, having regard to the means of those persons.
The 1947 Act shall have effect as if this section were included in Part III thereof; and section 21 of that Act (submission by local health authorities of proposals for carrying out their duties under sections 22 to 27 of that Act) shall have effect as if any references therein to those duties included a reference to the functions of local health authorities under this section.
This section applies to Scotland only.