Local Authority Social Services Act 1970

The Children Act 1948 (c. 43)

5 In section 45(1) of the Children Act 1948 (which authorises the making of grants to persons undergoing training with a view to, or in the course of, employment for the purposes of any of the enactments specified in section 39(1) of that Act or employment by a voluntary organisation for similar purposes) for the words " subsection (1) of section thirty-nine of this Act" there shall be substituted the words " subsection (1A) of this section " and after subsection (1) of the said section 45 there shall be inserted—

“(1A) The enactments referred to in subsection (1) of this section are—

(a) Parts III and IV of the [1933 c. 12.] Children and Young Persons Act 1933 ;

(b) this Act;

(c) the [1958 c. 65.] Children Act 1958 ;

(d) the [1958 c. 5 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2.).] Adoption Act 1958 ;

(e) section 2(1)(f) of the [1960 c. 48.] Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960, section 37 of the [1965 c. 72.] Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 and section 7(4) of the [1969 c. 46.] Family Law Reform Act 1969 ;

(f) the [1963 c. 37.] Children and Young Persons Act 1963, except Part II and section 56 ; and

(g) the [1969 c. 54.] Children and Young Persons Act 1969.”

6 In section 49(1) of the said Act of 1948 (which requires county borough councils to keep separate accounts of sums received and expended by them in the exercise of their functions under any of the enactments mentioned in section 39(1) of that Act) for the words " subsection (1) of section thirty-nine of this Act" there shall be substituted the words " subsection (1A) of this section " and after subsection (1) of the said section 49 there shall be inserted—

“(1A) The enactments referred to in subsection (1) of this section are—

(a) the enactments specified in section 45(1 A) of this Act;

(b) section 9 of the [1959 c. 72.] Mental Health Act 1959 and section 10 of that Act so far as it relates to children and young persons in respect of whom the rights and powers of a parent are vested in a local authority as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) of that section ; and

(c) section 10 of the [1960 c. 61.] Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960 so far as it relates to children and young persons in respect of whom the rights and powers of a parent are vested in a local authority as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) of that section.”