SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Children and Young Persons

Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49.)

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In section 20 of that Act (duty of local authority to further the best interests of a child in their care)—

a

in subsection (1), for the words “, the local authority” there shall be substituted the words “or of a voluntary organisation, they”;

b

in subsection (2), for the words “a local authority” there shall be substituted the word “they”, and after the words “the local authority”, there shall be inserted the words “or voluntary organisation”; and

c

in subsection (3), after the word “authority”, there shall be inserted the words “or voluntary organisation”, and for the words “section 17(3)” there be substituted the words “sections 17(3), 17(3A)”.