Part II Accommodation etc. for children in care, and foster children

Community homes

46 Discontinuance of approved schools etc. on establishment of community homes.

(1)

If in the case of any approved school, F1or remand home within the meaning of the M1Criminal Justice Act 1948 or approved probation hostel F2. . . (hereafter in this section referred to as an “approved institution”) it appears to the Secretary of State that in consequence of the establishment of community homes for a planning area the institution as such is no longer required, he may by order provide that it shall cease to be an approved institution on a date specified in the order.

(2)

The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect in relation to institutions which are, or by virtue of this section have ceased to be, approved institutions.