National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1967 c. 39 |
| Year | 1967 |
National Health Service(Family Planning) Act 1967
1967 CHAPTER 39
An Act to secure the provision, as part of the National Health Service, by local health authorities of services in connection with family planning.
[28th June 1967]
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:—
1 Provision by local health authority of services in connection with contraception.
(1) A local health authority in England or Wales may, with the approval of the Minister of Health, and to such extent as he may direct shall, 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 and contraceptive appliances.
(2) A local health authority may, with the approval of the Minister of Health, recover from persons to whom advice is given under this section or substances or appliances 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.
2 Provisions supplementary to section 1.
(1) The National Health Service Act 1946 of that Act (which requires local health authorities to submit to the Minister of Health proposals for carrying out their duties under sections 21 to 28 of that Act) to those sections shall be construed as including a reference to the foregoing section.
(2) The reference in section 46(1)(a ) of the Local Government Act 1958 (schemes for exercise by county district councils of health and welfare functions of county councils) to Part III of the National Health Service Act 1946 shall be construed as including a reference to the foregoing section, and any reference in a scheme in force under the said section 46 at the passing of this Act to a county council's functions under sections 21 to 26 of the said Act of 1946 shall be construed as including a reference to their functions under the foregoing section.
3 Expenses, and receipts.
(1) There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament—
(a ) any increase...
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