C2Part II Promotion of Social Welfare by Local Authorities
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
Special provisions as to the care of children in need
25 Power of local authority to guarantee indentures and other deeds of apprenticeship etc., of persons in their care. C1
While a person is in the care of a local authority by virtue of any enactment, the local authority may undertake any obligation by way of guarantee under any indentures or other deed of apprenticeship or articles of clerkship entered into by that person; and where the local authority have undertaken any such obligation under any such deed or articles they may at any time (whether or not the person concerned is still in their care) undertake the like obligation under any such deed or articles supplemental thereto.
Pt. II extended with modifications by Guardianship Act 1973 (c. 29), s. 11(5)