The Functions of Local Health Boards (Dental Public Health) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Exercise of functions of Local Health Boards

2.—(1) A Local Health Board will have the following functions.

(2) A Local Health Board will exercise its functions under these Regulations to the extent that it considers necessary to meet all reasonable requirements within its area to provide or secure the provision of the following—

(a) oral health promotion programmes;

(b) dental inspection of pupils in attendance at schools maintained by local education authorities; and

(c) oral health surveys to facilitate—

(i) the assessment and monitoring of oral health needs,

(ii) the planning and evaluation of oral health promotion programmes, and

(iii) the planning and evaluation of the provision of primary and specialist dental services.

(3) A Local Health Board will participate in any survey required by the National Assembly for Wales as part of a survey conducted or sponsored under section 5(2)(d) of the Act (1) (other services).

(1)

Subsection (2) of section 5 has been amended by section 1 of the Public Health Laboratory Service Act 1979, (c. 23), and S.I. 2002/2759.