Version Superseded: 01/09/1992
Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Mental Health Act 1959, Section 9.
(1)[F2A local social services authority] may accommodate in homes [F3provided under section 38 of the M1Children and Young Persons Act 1969] any child who, not being in their care within the meaning of Part II of [F3the M2Children Act 1948],is a person whose care or after-care is for the time being undertaken by that or any other authority . . . F4 in pursuance of arrangements made under [F5paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to the M3National Health Service Act 1977], [F6or under section twenty-seven of the M4National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947] for the care or after-care of persons who are or have been suffering from mental disorder.
[F7(2)Where any such child as is referred to in subsection (1) of this section is accommodated as mentioned in that subsection by a local social services authority; the authority may make such adjustments of their accounts as they consider appropriate.]
(3)Nothing in this Act, or in any other enactment, shall be construed as preventing a [F2local social services authority] from receiving into their care under section one of the M5Children Act 1948, a child who is mentally disordered, nor as preventing a [F2local social services authority] from accommodating in pursuance of such arrangements as aforesaid any child who is in the care of that or any other authority . . . F4
(4)In this section “child” has the same meaning as in the M6Children Act 1948.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 9 repealed ( prosp.) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(2)(7), Sch. 15
F2Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 23 para. 9(3)
F3Words substituted by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Sch. 5 para. 37
F4Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30
F5Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), s. 129, Sch. 15 para. 25
F6Words inserted by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960 (c. 61), Sch. 4
F7S. 9(2) substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 23 para. 9(3)
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