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Changes over time for: Section 9


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Version Superseded: 01/09/1992
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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Mental Health Act 1959, Section 9.

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[9 Functions of children authorities.E+W
(1)[A local social services authority] may accommodate in homes [provided under section 38 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969] any child who, not being in their care within the meaning of Part II of [the Children Act 1948],is a person whose care or after-care is for the time being undertaken by that or any other authority . . . in pursuance of arrangements made under [paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to the National Health Service Act 1977], [or under section twenty-seven of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947] for the care or after-care of persons who are or have been suffering from mental disorder.
[(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 [local social services authority] from receiving into their care under section one of the Children Act 1948, a child who is mentally disordered, nor as preventing a [local 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 . . .
(4)In this section “child” has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1948.]
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