The National Health Service Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 31) was an Act of Parliament (United Kingdom) of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It stated that those who received dentures and spectacles from the National Health Service should pay towards their cost. The National Assistance Board was authorised to assist anyone who could demonstrate that they needed help based on national assistance standards.Alfred H. Haynes, The Practitioner's Handbook to the Social Services (Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd, 1955), p. 68.
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed for England and Wales by section 129 of, and schedule 16 to, the National Health Service Act 1977, which came into force on 29 August 1977.
The whole act was repealed for Scotland by section 109(b) of, and schedule 17 to, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, which came into force on 1 January 1979.
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Further reading A. Lindsey, Socialized Medicine in England and Wales: The National Health Service, 1948–1961 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962).
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