National Health Service Act 1961

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1961 c. 19


National Health Service Act, 1961

(9 & 10 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 19

An Act to make further provision with respect to charges for the provision of dental and optical appliances and dental services under the National Health Service.

Be it enacted by the Queen'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 Increase of, and exemptions from, charges for dental and optical appliances.

1 Increase of, and exemptions from, charges for dental and optical appliances.

(1) The authorised charges specified in the Schedule to the Act of 1951 for one denture shall each be increased by five shillings, and the maximum so specified of four pounds five shillings for more than one denture and the like maximum specified in subsection (2) of section two of the Act of 1952 (maximum charge for services some of which are chargeable under the Act of 1951) shall each be increased to five pounds.

(2) The authorised charge of ten shillings per lens (specified in the said Schedule for glasses other than children's glasses) shall be increased by two shillings and sixpence, or in the case of a bifocal or multifocal lens by ten shillings.

(3) Without prejudice to any other exemption from charges under the Acts of 1951 and 1952, no charge shall be made under section one of the Act of 1951 in respect of the supply of a dental appliance, or under section two of the Act of 1952 in respect of the relining of a denture or the addition of teeth, bands or wires to a denture, where at the relevant time the person for whom the appliance has been supplied or the work done—

(a ) was under sixteen years of age or was receiving full-time school education, or

(b ) was an expectant mother or had borne a child within the previous twelve months.

(4) Without prejudice to any other exemption from charges under the Act of 1951, no charge shall be made under section one of that Act for the supply of lenses for any glasses supplied under Part II or Part IV of the Act of 1946 or of the Act of 1947 if—

(a ) the person for whom the glasses are supplied was at the relevant time of the age of ten or more and either under sixteen years of age or receiving full-time school education, and

(b ) the frames of the glasses are of any description specified in the Statement of Fees and Charges.

(5) Regulations made with respect to any exemption under either of the two foregoing subsections may provide that it shall be a condition of the exemption that such declaration is made in such form and manner, or such certificate or other evidence is supplied in such form and manner, as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(6) In the foregoing subsection ‘regulations’ means regulations made by statutory instrument, subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament, by the Minister of Health as respects England and Wales or by the Secretary of State as respects Scotland.

S-2 Variation of charges for dental and optical appliances and dental treatment.

2 Variation of charges for dental and optical appliances and dental treatment.

(1) The Minister of Health as respects England and Wales, and the...

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