It shall be the duty of a local authority to enforce and execute within their area the provisions of this Act F8, Part 2 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.36) or Parts 5, 6, 9 to 11, 13 to 16, and 18 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1) with respect to which the duty is not expressly, or by necessary implication, imposed on some other authority.

The local authorities for the purposes of this Act shall be F1councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994

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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.

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