Health Act, 1953
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Infant welfare services. |
17.—(1) A health authority shall, in accordance with regulations, make available, without charge, medical, surgical, hospital, specialist and nursing services for children up to the age of six weeks whose mothers are entitled to avail themselves of the services under section 16 of this Act. | |
(2) Regulations shall provide that medical services under this section shall be made available for a child by such registered medical practitioner who has entered into an agreement with the health authority for the provision of those services and who is willing to accept the child as a patient as the parent of the child may choose. |