424.Subsections (1) and (2) provide for existing fluoridation arrangements between water undertakers and SHAs to be treated as if they were arrangements entered into by the water undertaker with the Secretary of State under section 87(1) of the 1991 Act.
425.Subsection (3) provides that where arrangements are to be treated as existing arrangements, payments by local authorities towards fluoridation costs are to be determined by agreement between the affected local authorities.