2 Local authority to establish social services committee.
(1)
Every local authority shall establish a social services committee and, subject to subsection (3) below, there shall stand referred to that committee all matters relating to the discharge by the authority of—
(a)
their functions under the enactments specified in the first column of Schedule 1 to this Act (being the functions which are described in general terms in the second column of that Schedule); and
(b)
such other of their functions as, by virtue of the following subsection, fall within the responsibility of the committee.
(2)
The Secretary of State may by order designate functions of local authorities under any other enactment for the time being in force as being appropriate for discharge through a local authority’s social services committee other than functions which by virtue of that or any other enactment are required to be discharged through some other committee of a local authority; and any functions designated by an order under this section which is for the time being in force shall accordingly fall within the responsibility of the social services committee.
(3)—(6)
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(7)
Section 33(2)of the M1 National Assistance Act 1948 andSchedule 3 to that Act (establishment of committees or joint boardsfor the purposes of the functions of local authorities under Part IIIof that Act) and section 39 of the M2 Children Act 1948(establishment of children’s committees of local authorities shall cease to have effect.