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1. Section 21 (duty of local authorities to provide accommodation)(1).
1948 c.29. Section 21 has been amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c.70), sections 195 and 272, Schedule 23, paragraph 2 and Schedule 30; the National Health Service (Reorganisation) Act 1973 (c.32), Schedule 5; the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 (c.48), Schedule; the Children Act 1989 (c.41), Schedule 13, paragraph 11; the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), section 42 (1), 66 and Schedule 9, paragraph 5 and Schedule 10; The Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1998 (c.19), section 1;the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c.33), section 116; the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c.15), section 53; the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c.41), section 45(5); and the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c.43), Schedule 1, paragraphs 5 and 6.
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