SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Minor and consequential amendments
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In section 24 (persons qualifying for advice and assistance)—
a
for subsection (1) there is substituted—
1
In this Part “a person qualifying for advice and assistance” means a person to whom subsection (1A) or (1B) applies.
1A
This subsection applies to a person—
a
who has reached the age of sixteen but not the age of twenty-one;
b
with respect to whom a special guardianship order is in force (or, if he has reached the age of eighteen, was in force when he reached that age); and
c
who was, immediately before the making of that order, looked after by a local authority.
1B
This subsection applies to a person to whom subsection (1A) does not apply, and who—
a
is under twenty-one; and
b
at any time after reaching the age of sixteen but while still a child was, but is no longer, looked after, accommodated or fostered.
b
in subsection (2), for “subsection (1)(b)” there is substituted “
subsection (1B)(b)
”
,
c
in subsection (5), before paragraph (a) there is inserted—
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in the case of a person to whom subsection (1A) applies, a local authority determined in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State;