1 Solvent abuse may indicate child in need of compulsory measures of care.
In section 32(2) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (conditions which if satisfied indicate that a child may be in need of compulsory measures of care within the meaning of Part III of that Act), the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (g):

“(gg) he has misused a volatile substance by deliberately inhaling, other than for medicinal purposes, that substance’s vapour; or”

1968 c. 49.

Act repealed (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(5), Sch. 5 (with Sch. 3 paras. 4, 6); S.I. 1996/3201, art. 3(7)