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Child Care Act 1980
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56Definition of voluntary home
In this Act, except where otherwise indicated, the expression " voluntary home " means any home or other institution for the boarding, care and maintenance of poor children, being either—
(a)a home or other institution supported wholly or partly by voluntary contributions, or
(b)a home or other institution supported wholly or partly by endowments, not being a school within the meaning of the [1944 c. 31.] Education Act 1944,
but does not in either case include a mental nursing home within the meaning of the [1975 c. 37.] Nursing Homes Act 1975 or a residential home for mentally disordered persons within the meaning of the Residential Homes Act 1980.
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