# Child Care Act 1980 (repealed 14.10.1991), Section 56: Definition of voluntary home.

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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) a home or other institution supported wholly or partly by voluntary contributions, or
(b) a home or other institution supported wholly or partly by endowments, not being a school within the meaning of the Education Act 1944,
but does not in either case include a mental nursing home within the meaning of the Nursing Homes Act 1975 or a residential home for mentally disordered persons within the meaning of the Residential Homes Act 1980.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/5/section/56 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-care-act-1980-repealed-14101991/section-56
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