National Health Service Act 1951

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1951 c. 31


National Health Service Act, 1951

(14 & 15 Geo. 6) CHAPTER 31

An Act to authorise the making and recovery of charges in respect of certain dental and optical appliances under the National Health Service Act, 1946, and the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947; to make provision for the accommodation and treatment outside Great Britain of persons suffering from respiratory tuberculosis; to remit stamp duty on receipts given in respect of such charges as aforesaid; and to amend the National Assistance Act, 1948, in relation to requirements for services under the said Acts of 1946 and 1947.

[10th May 1951]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Charges in respect of certain dental and optical appliances.

1 Charges in respect of certain dental and optical appliances.

(1) Notwithstanding anything in section one of the National Health Service Act, 1946 or section one of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947 , but subject to the following provisions of this section, charges of the amounts specified in the Schedule to this Act may be made and recovered, in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations under those Acts respectively, in respect of the supply under Part II or Part IV of those Acts respectively of such dental or optical appliances as are described in the said Schedule.

(2) No charge shall be made under this section in respect of any appliance supplied under the said Part II to a patient for the time being resident in a hospital.

(3) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section may be made so as to take effect—

(a ) in the case of appliances supplied under the said Part II, where the examination or testing of sight under the said Part II leading to the supply of those appliances, or the first such examination or testing, takes place on or after the date on which the regulations come into force;

(b ) in the case of dental appliances supplied under the said Part IV, where the contract or arrangement between the person by whom and the person to whom the appliances are supplied is made on or after that date;

(c ) in the case of optical appliances supplied under the said Part IV, where the testing of sight leading to the supply of those appliances, or the first such testing, takes place on or after that date.

(4) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section in relation to appliances provided as part of the general dental services or the supplementary ophthalmic services under the said Part IV may provide for the reduction of the sums which otherwise would be payable by an Executive Council to the persons by whom those services are provided by the amount of any charges authorised by this section in respect of those appliances.

(5) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any provision of the National Health Service Acts, 1946 and 1949 or the National Health Service (Scotland) Acts, 1947 and 1949 authorising the making and recovery of charges in respect of services provided under those Acts.

(6) References in this section to the supply of appliances shall be construed as including references to the replacement of appliances; but (without prejudice to any charge authorised by any such provision as is mentioned in the last foregoing subsection) no charge shall be made under this section in respect of the replacement of dentures or lenses where the replacement is required in consequence of loss or damage.

S-2 Power to amend Schedule.

2 Power to amend Schedule.

(1) His Majesty may by Order in Council...

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