Health Services Act 1980

PART I Amendments of the Act of 1977

Exemption from charges for appliances

1 In paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 12 to the Act of 1977, for the words " or is undergoing full-time education in a school, or ", there shall be substituted the words " or is under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education, or ".

Exemption from charges for dental or optical appliances

2 (1) Paragraph 2 of the said Schedule 12 shall be amended as provided in this paragraph.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1), under the heading " Glasses other than children's glasses", the sub-heading in the first column beginning "The lenses" shall be numbered "(i)" and the word "Frames" shall become a sub-heading numbered " (ii)" and in the definition of "children's glasses", for the words after "person", there shall be substituted the words " who, at the time of the testing of sight leading to the supply of the glasses or of the first such testing, was under 16 years of age or was under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education ; and ".

(3) For sub-paragraph (4)(a), there shall be substituted—

“(a) was under 16 years of age or was under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education; or”.

(4) For sub-paragraph (5)(a), there shall be substituted—

“(a) the person for whom the glasses are supplied was at the relevant time of the age of 10 years or more and either under 16 years of age or under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education ; and”.

(5) In sub-paragraph (8), after the word "replacement", where it first occurs, there shall be inserted the words " and, in the case of dentures, to their being relined or adjusted or having additions made to them, ".

Exemptions from charges for dental treatment

3 (1) Paragraph 3 of the said Schedule 12 shall be amended as provided in this paragraph.

(2) In sub-paragraph (4), for the words from "(a) was under 21 years " to " in a school," there shall be substituted—

“(a) was under 18 years of age or was under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education, or”;

and the words from " if " to the end shall be omitted.

(3) In sub-paragraph (5), for the words from " under section 79(1) " to " to a denture " there shall be substituted the words " made with respect to any exemption under sub-paragraph (4) above ".

Interpretation

4 For paragraph 7 of the said Schedule 12, there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“7 References in this Schedule to qualifying full-time education mean full-time instruction at a recognised educational establishment or by other means accepted as comparable by the Secretary of State, and for the purposes of such references—

(a) " recognised educational establishment" means an establishment recognised by the Secretary of State as being, or as comparable to, a school, college or university; and

(b) regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as receiving full-time instruction.”