2(1)Where contributions under section eighty-six of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, in respect of a child or young person committed to, or received into, the care of a local authority are payable, by the person liable to make the contributions, to an authority other than the authority responsible for maintenance, the authority receiving the contributions from the said person shall pay them over to the authority responsible for maintenance, subject however to such deductions in respect of services rendered by the authority paying the contributions over as may be agreed between the two authorities or as in default of agreement may be determined by the Secretary of State.
(2)In the foregoing sub-paragraph references to the authority responsible for maintenance—
(a)in relation to a child or young person committed to the care of a local authority, are references to that authority ;
(b)in relation to a child received into the care of a local authority, are references to the local authority into whose care the child has been received, except that where the authority to whom the contributions are payable by the person liable to make them has been notified that under subsection (4) of section one of the Children Act, 1948, expenses are being recovered from another authority, the said references shall be construed as references to that other authority.
(3)In subsection (3) of section eighty-six of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, after the word " and " where it first occurs there shall be inserted the words " in the case of a child or young person ordered to be sent to an approved school ".
(4)References in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section eighty-seven and in subsection (1) of section eighty-eight of the said Act of 1933 to a council entitled to receive contributions shall be construed as references to the council to whom the contributions are payable by the person under a duty to make them.
(5)The power of the Secretary of State under subsection (1) of section eighty-nine of the said Act of 1933 to remit the whole or any part of the payments to which that subsection applies shall cease to be exercisable as respects payments in respect of a child or young person committed to, or received into, the care of a county or county borough council.