Section 17: Alteration of references to services provided in accordance with arrangements under section 41 of the 1946 Act

Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 · 1968 c.46

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17(1)

The services for the testing of sight and the supply of optical appliances which are provided in accordance with arrangements made under section 41 of the 1946 Act by Executive Councils shall, instead of being referred to in that Act as supplementary ophthalmic services, be so referred to as general ophthalmic services, and, accordingly, for the words " supplementary ophthalmic services" in that Act (wherever they occur) and in section 1(4) of the National Health Service Act 1951, there shall be substituted the words " general ophthalmic services ".

17(2)

This section does not apply to Scotland.

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