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Paragraph 60 I1I2

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

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—

“(za)

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;”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 3 para. 60 in force at 7.12.2004 for specified purposes by S.I. 2004/3203, art. 2(1)(m)(x)

I2

Sch. 3 para. 60 in force at 30.12.2005 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2005/2213, art. 2(o) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2005/2897, arts. 3-16)