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Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968

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Version Superseded: 14/10/1991

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1 Local authorities for the administration of the Act.S

(1)It shall be the duty of a local authority to enforce and execute within their area the provisions of this Act with respect to which the duty is not expressly, or by necessary implication, imposed on some other authority.

(2)The local authorities for the purposes of this Act shall be [F1regional and islands councils.]

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(4)The functions of local health authorities in respect of their areas under the following enactments—

[F3(a)the M1Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948;]

(b)the [F4Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984] . . . F5; [F6and]

[F7(c)section 27 of the M2National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 (care and after-care of persons who are or have been suffering from illness), other than functions relating to medical, dental or nursing care, or to health visiting,]

are hereby transferred to the local authorities of those areas.

(5)On the date of the commencement of Part III of this Act the functions of education authorities in relation to the establishments which immediately before that date were approved schools and the children resident therein shall be transferred to the local authorities in whose areas the said children are ordinarily resident or, in the case of children who have no ordinary residence in Scotland, such local authorities as the Secretary of State may determine.

(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

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