The power of the Minister under section 41(4) of the 1946 Act to direct that that section shall cease to apply to an area shall cease to be exercisable, and the functions under that section of Executive Councils shall cease to be exercised on their behalf by Ophthalmic Services Committees (which shall, accordingly, be dissolved).
Section 43 of the 1946 Act (which enables the Minister to remedy inadequacies in services provided under arrangements in force under Part IV of that Act) shall have effect as if, after paragraph (c) of that section, there were inserted the following:—
or (d) of persons undertaking to provide general ophthalmic services;
and as if the word " or ", where occurring immediately before paragraph (c), were omitted.
Section 21 of the 1946 Act (duty of local health authorities to provide, maintain and equip health centres at which facilities for various purposes shall be available) shall be amended as follows:—
(ca)for the provision of general ophthalmic services under Part IV of this Act by medical practitioners having the qualifications prescribed for the purposes of section forty-one of this Act, ophthalmic opticians and dispensing opticians and, on such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Minister, for the provision by persons of each of the descriptions aforesaid of such (if any) other ophthalmic services as may, in the case of a particular health centre, be so determined in relation to persons of that description
;
and in section 41(1) of that Act, after the word "testing" and after the word " supply", there shall be inserted the words " whether at a health centre or otherwise ".
This section does not apply to Scotland.