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46E+W+SFor section 64(3)(a) there is substituted—
“(a)“the relevant enactments” means—
(i)Parts III and IV of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933,
(ii)the National Health Service Act 1946,
(iii)Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948,
(iv)the Children Act 1948,
(v)the Adoption Act 1958,
(vi)the Children Act 1958,
(vii)section 9 of the Mental Health Act 1959.
(viii)section 10 of the Mental Health Act 1959, so far as it relates to cases mentioned in paragraph (a) of that section,
(ix)section 2(1)(f) of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates’ Courts) Act 1960,
(x)the Children and Young Persons Act 1963, except Part II and section 56,
(xi)this Act,
(xii)the Adoption Act 1968,
(xiii)section 7(4) of the Family Law Reform Act 1969,
(xiv)the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, except so far as it relates to any voluntary home designated as mentioned in section 39(1) of that Act as a controlled or assisted community home.
(xv)section 43 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973,
(xvi)the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973,
(xvii)the Children Act 1975.”
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