Prospective
29(1)Section 115 (primary ophthalmic services) is amended as follows.
(2)For the heading substitute “Duty of integrated care boards to arrange primary ophthalmic services”.
(3)For subsections (1) and (1A) substitute—
“(1)Each integrated care board must exercise its powers so as to secure the provision of the following primary ophthalmic services to such extent as it considers necessary to meet the reasonable requirements of the people for whom it has responsibility—
(a)the sight-testing service mentioned in subsection (2),
(b)such other primary ophthalmic services as may be prescribed, and
(c)to the extent that it considers necessary to meet all reasonable requirements, any further primary ophthalmic services.
(1A)For the purposes of this section an integrated care board has responsibility for—
(a)the group of people for whom it has core responsibility (see section 14Z31), and
(b)such other people as may be prescribed (whether generally or in relation to a prescribed service).”
(4)Omit subsections (4), (4A), (5), (7) and (8).
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 29 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)