Version Superseded: 14/10/1991
Point in time view as at 01/04/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, Section 1 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(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
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65, SIF 81:2), Sch. 27 Pt. II para. 183
F3S. 1(4)(a) repealed (prosp.) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(2)(7), Sch. 15
F4Words substituted by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 36, SIF 85), s. 127(1), Sch. 3 para. 14
F5Words repealed by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 58, SIF 113:2), Sch. 7 Pt. II
F6Word repealed (1.4.1991) by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(2), Sch. 10
F7S. 1(4)(c) repealed (1.4.1991) by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(2), Sch. 10
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 1(4)(c): National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 27), s. 27 continued for the purposes of s. 1(4) by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29, SIF 113:2), Sch. 15 para. 15
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