Section 56 Definition of voluntary home.
England and Wales
In this Act, except where otherwise indicated, the expression “voluntary home” means any home or other institution for the boarding, care and maintenance of poor children, being either—
a home or other institution supported wholly or partly by voluntary contributions, or
a home or other institution supported wholly or partly by endowments, not being a school within the meaning of the M1Education Act 1944,
but does not in either case include a mental nursing home within the meaning of the M2Nursing Homes Act 1975 or a residential home for mentally disordered persons within the meaning of the Residential Homes Act 1980.
Annotations
Marginal citations
- M1
- M2
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(7), Sch.15 (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 21(1), 27(4) 31, 36(3)(b) with saving for ss. 16(1) and 24 in Sch. 14 paras. 23 and 28); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2). (Certain provisions of this Act are expressed to be amended (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), s. 100, Sch. 11 para. 40(2); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2.