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PART 6MISCELLANEOUS

Place of safety

74Amendment of Children (Scotland) Act 1995: “place of safety”

In section 93(1) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36) (interpretation), in the definition of “place of safety”, for paragraph (d) (and the word “or” which immediately precedes that paragraph) there is substituted—

(d)a hospital, or surgery, the person or body of persons responsible for the management of which is willing temporarily to receive the child;

(e)the dwelling-house of a suitable person who is so willing; or

(f)any other suitable place the occupier of which is so willing..