Health Act 1970
Dental, ophthalmic and aural services.
67.—(1) A health board shall make dental, ophthalmic and aural treatment and dental, optical and aural appliances available for persons with full eligibility F135[…].
(2) A health board shall make dental, ophthalmic and aural treatment and dental, optical and aural appliances available in respect of defects noticed at an examination under the service mentioned in section 66.
(3) F136[Charges] shall not be made for treatment and appliances made available under this section.
(4) F135[…]
Annotations
Amendments:
F135
Deleted (24.08.2009) by Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (3/2006), s. 28(a), (c), S.I. No. 333 of 2009.
F136
Substituted (24.08.2009) by Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (3/2006), s. 28(b), S.I. No. 333 of 2009.
Modifications (not altering text):
C43
References to “health board” construed as references to Health Service Executive (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), ss. 56(a), 66, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
Definitions (Part 10).
56.—In this Part “specified body” means—
(a) the health boards,
...
References to specified bodies.
66.—Subject to this Act, references (however expressed) to a specified body in any Act passed before the establishment day, or in any instrument made before that day under an Act, are to be read as references to the Executive, unless the context otherwise requires.