Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953

4 Duties of local education authorities in England and Wales as to dental treatment

(1) It shall be the duty of every local education authority to make such arrangements as are necessary for securing that there are available for pupils for whom primary, secondary or further education is provided by them, at a school or county college maintained by them comprehensive facilities for free dental treatment provided either—

(a) by persons employed or engaged by, and at the expense of, the authority, either regularly (whether whole-time , or part-time) or for the purposes of particular cases ; or

(b) under arrangements made by a Regional Hospital Board or the Board of Governors of a teaching hospital within the meaning of the National Health Service Act, 1946 ;

or partly in the one way and partly in the other ; and every local education authority shall have power to make arrangements for rendering available, to senior pupils for whom secondary or further education is provided by the authority at any other educational establishment maintained by them, any facilities which they have caused to be made available in the discharge of the duty imposed on them by the foregoing provisions of this subsection.

(2) Subsections (4) and (5) of section forty-eight of the principal Act (which provide for encouraging pupils to take advantage of facilities for medical treatment provided under that section and for requiring the managers or governors of a voluntary school to provide facilities for the purpose of enabling the local education authority to carry out their functions under that section), shall have effect as if references to the facilities mentioned in subsection (3) of that section, medical treatment provided under that section and functions of the local education authority under that section included respectively references to facilities rendered available in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section, dental treatment provided under that subsection and functions of a local education authority under that subsection.