Section 50 Payments towards maintenance of children.
Scotland
Without prejudice to any existing powers and duties to make payments in respect of the maintenance of children, where F1a child under the age of F2eighteen is residing with and being cared for (other than as a foster child) by a person other than a parent of the child, a council constituted under section 2 of the M1Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 may make to that person payments for or towards the maintenance of the child.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in s. 50 substituted (1.11.1996) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4), Sch. 4 para. 26(3) (with s. 103(1)); S.I. 1996/2203, art. 3(3), Sch.
- F2
Words in s. 50 substituted (1.10.2001) by 2001 asp 8, s. 71; S.S.I. 2001/304, art. 2(a)
Marginal citations
- M1
Notes on Part II
Modifications
- C1
Pt. II (Ss. 33–55) modified (E.W.) by Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22, SIF 49:3), ss. 8(3), 12, Sch. 1
- C2
Pt II (Ss. 33–55) amended (E.W.) by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42, SIF 49:7), s. 2(1)(e)