Supplementary

20Repeals and consequential amendments

1

Section 25 of the [1948 c. 29.] National Assistance Act 1948 (power of Supplementary Benefits Commission to require provision of accommodation in urgent cases) shall cease to have effect.

2

At the end of Schedule 1 to the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (enactments conferring functions assigned to Social Services Committee) there shall be added the following entry—

Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 Section 9(1)(b)

Co-operation in relation to homeless persons and persons threatened with homelessness.

3

In section 2 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, at end of paragraph (f) of subsection (2), there shall be added the words—

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section 9(1)(b) of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977,

4

The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that Schedule.