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Children Act 1975

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81Restriction on removal of child from care of voluntary organisation

The following section is inserted after section 25 of the [1968 c. 49.] Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968—

25ARestriction on removal of child from care of voluntary organisation.

(1)Section 17(8) of this Act shall apply in relation to a child who is not in the care of a local authority under section 15 of this Act but who is in the care of a voluntary organisation, as it applies by virtue of subsection (3A) of the said section 15 to a child in the care of a local authority except that, in the case of a child who is not in the care of a local authority, references in subsection (3 A) to a local authority shall be construed as references to the voluntary organisation in whose care the child is.

(2)For the purposes of this section, a child is in the care of a voluntary organisation if the voluntary organisation is providing accommodation for the child in a residential establishment or has boarded out the child..

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