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Child health service.
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66.—(1) A health board shall make available without charge at clinics, health centres or other prescribed places a health examination and treatment service for children under the age of six years.
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(2) A health board shall make available without charge a health examination and treatment service for pupils attending a national school or a school to which this section has been applied by an order under subsection (3).
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(3) When the governing body of a school which is not a national school so requests, a health board may at its discretion by order apply this section to the school.
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(4) A school manager may be required, when notice has been given to him by a health board, to provide reasonable facilities for an examination under this section.
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(5) Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising a health board to provide any general domiciliary service or any services such as are mentioned in section 52, 56 or 67.
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