Explanatory Notes

Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002

2002 asp 5

12 March 2002

Schedule 2 – Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

Paragraph 1Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c.49)

118.Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) make minor amendments to sections 12B(7) and 12C(2) of the 1968 Act. They are consequential to the direct payment provisions in section 7 of the Act.

119.Sub-paragraph (4) is to correct an error in the text of section 13A(2) of the 1968 Act.

120.Sub-paragraph (5) makes a minor amendment consequential to section 3 of the Act. It amends section 94(1) of the 1968 Act to ensure that prescription under the new section 12(3A) of that Act is by order.