Health Act, 1970

Chapter V

Other Services

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 and persons with limited eligibility.

(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) Save as provided for under subsection (4), charges shall not be made for treatment and appliances made available under this section.

(4) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations—

(a) providing for the imposition in specified circumstances of charges for services under this section for persons who are not persons with full eligibility or for specified classes of such persons, and

(b) specifying the amounts of the charges or the limits to the amounts of the charges to be so made.