Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968

14 Home help and laundry facilities

(1) It shall be the duty of every local authority to provide on such scale as is adequate for the needs of their area, or to arrange for the provision on such a scale as is so adequate of, home help for households where such help is required owing to the presence, or the proposed presence, of a person in need or a person who is an expectant mother or lying-in, and every such authority shall have power to provide or arrange for the provision of laundry facilities for households for which home help is being, or can be, provided under this subsection.

(2) A local authority may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, recover from persons availing themselves of help or facilities provided under this section such charges (if any) as the authority consider reasonable, having regard to the means of, and the cost of the help or facilities made available to, those persons.

(3) It shall not be a requirement that any matter relating to the discharge of their functions under this section by a local authority shall stand referred to their social work committee.

(4) On the coming into operation of the provisions of this and. the last two foregoing sections, the provisions of sections 13, 44 and 45 of the [1968 c. 46.] Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 shall cease to have effect.