Part IV Miscellaneous Matters
Provisions applicable to England and Wales and Scotland
64F1 Financial assistance by the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State to certain voluntary organisations.
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F2The Secretary of State may, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine, give to a voluntary organisation to which this section applies assistance by way of grant or by way of loan, or partly in the one way and partly in the other.
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This section applies to a voluntary organisation whose activities consist in, or include, the provision of a service similar to a relevant service, the promotion of the provision of a relevant service or a similar one, the publicising of a relevant service or a similar one or the giving of advice with respect to the manner in which a relevant service or a similar one can best be provided.
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In this section—
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“the relevant enactments” means—
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Parts III and IV of the M1Children and Young Persons Act 1933,
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Part III of the M2National Assistance Act 1948,
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section 10 of the Mental Health Act 1959, so far as it relates to cases mentioned in paragraph (a) of that section,
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the M3Children and Young Persons Act 1963, except Part II and section 56,
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this Act,
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section 7(4) of the M4Family Law Reform Act 1969,
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the M6Children Act 1975
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the Adoption and Children Act 2002,
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the National Health Service Act 2006 and the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006,
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the Children Act 1989,
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sections 63 to 66 and 92 of, and Schedules 6 and 7 to, the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000;
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“relevant service” means a service which must or may, by virtue of the relevant enactments, be provided or the provision of which must or may, by virtue of those enactments, be secured by F13the Secretary of State or the council of a F14non-metropolitan county, F15county borough metropolitan district or London borough or the Common Council of the City of London or a service for the provision of which F16a F17Primary Care Trust orF28Local Health Board are, by virtue of F27Chapter 1 of Part 7 of the National Health Service Act 2006, or Part 6 of, or Chapter 1 of Part 7 of, the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, under a duty to make arrangements F23or any service which a Primary Care Trust or Local Health Board is under a duty to provide under section 16CA or 16CC of that Act; and
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“voluntary organisation” means a body the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit, but does not include any public or local authority.
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This section shall have effect in Scotland as if, in subsection (1) thereof, for the reference to the Minister of Health, there were substituted a reference to the Secretary of State; and as if, in subsection (3) thereof, for paragraphs (a) and (b), there were substituted the following paragraphs:—
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“relevant service” means a service which must or may, by virtue of the relevant enactments, be provided or the provision of which must or may, by virtue of those enactments, be secured by the Secretary of State or by a county council or by the town council of a large burgh; or a service for the provision of which F21a Health Board is, by virtue of Part F22II of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act F221978 under a duty to make arrangements F24or any service which a Health Board is under a duty to provide under section 2C of that Act; and