Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968

60Control of residential and other establishments

(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the conduct of residential and other establishments and for securing the welfare of persons resident or accommodated in them, and, without prejudice to the generality of those regulations, they may provide—

(a)for the construction of, and the accommodation provided in, those establishments, and their equipment, maintenance and management;

(b)for the classification, treatment and control of persons resident therein or attending thereat;

(c)for the inspection of those establishments and the visiting of persons from time to time by visitors appointed in accordance with the regulations ;

(d)for notice to be given to the Secretary of State or the local authority with which the person carrying on any such establishment is registered under any enactment of any change of the person in charge of the establishment ;

(e)for requirements, in the case of children, as to the facilities which are to be given for them to receive a religious upbringing appropriate to the .persuasion to which they belong;

(f)for making available in any of those establishments any service authorised by the [1947 c. 28.] National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947;

and may contain different provisions for different classes of establishments and different categories of persons.

(2)In the foregoing subsection, the expression " treatment" includes training, education and occupation, but does not include medical treatment.

(3)Where any regulation made in pursuance of this section provides that this subsection shall have effect in relation to the regulation, any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the regulation or any requirement or direction under it shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.