Part 4

Health Board and local authority functions
Chapter 2

Local authority functions

Provision of services

Services designed to promote well-being and social development
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1
A local authority—
a
shall—
i
provide, for persons who are not in hospital and who have or have had a mental disorder, services which are designed to promote the well-being and social development of those persons; or
ii
secure the provision of such services for such persons; and
b
may—
i
provide such services for persons who are in hospital and who have or have had a mental disorder; or
ii
secure the provision of such services for such persons.
2
Services provided by virtue of subsection (1) above shall include, without prejudice to the generality of that subsection, services which provide—
a
social, cultural and recreational activities;
b
training for such of those persons as are over school age; and
c
assistance for such of those persons as are over school age in obtaining and in undertaking employment.
3
Subsection (1) above is without prejudice to the operation of—
a
section 1 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 44) (duties and powers of education authorities in relation to the provision of social, cultural and recreative activities and vocational and industrial training); and
b
section 1 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 (c. 37) (duty of Scottish Ministers in relation to the provision of further education).
4
In subsection (2)(b) and (c) above, “school age” has the same meaning as in section 31 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 44).