{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1944 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Medical inspection and treatment of pupils.",
  "text": "1)—(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) It shall be the duty of every local education authority or, in the case of pupils at a grant-maintained school, the duty of the governing body of the school to make arrangements for encouraging and assisting pupils to take advantage of the provision for medical and dental inspection and treatment made for them in pursuance of section 5(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 or paragraph 1(a)(i) of Schedule 1 to that Act:\nProvided that if the parent of any pupil gives to the authority or, as the case may be, to the governing body notice that he objects to the pupil availing himself of any of the provision so made, the pupil shall not be encouraged or assisted so to do.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 48(1)–(3), (5) repealed by National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(1), Sch. 12 para. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Sch. 4 para. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Sch. 15 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words inserted by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(1), Sch. 12 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 48(4) applied (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1994/653, reg. 42(1), Sch. Pt.I."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 48(4) applied (9.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1084, reg. 8(1), Sch. 2 Pt.I."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:41.167119+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}