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Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

2010 asp 8

The Act

Part 5 – Social Care and Social Work: Scrutiny and Improvement

Chapter 1 – Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland
Key Definitions
Section 49 – Power to modify key definitions

84.This section gives Scottish Ministers a power, following consultation, to change, by affirmative order, the definition of any social service. The power may be used to add to or remove from the range of defined services and to amend the definitions themselves.

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