{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/72",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Grants in respect of secure accomodation for children in Scotland.",
  "text": "The following section is inserted after section 59 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968—\n“ Grants in respect of secure accommodation for children.\n59A (1) The Secretary of State may make to a local authority grants of such amount and subject to such conditions as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine in respect of expenditure incurred by the authority in—\n(a) providing ;\n(b) joining with another local authority in providing; or\n(c) contributing by way of grant under section 10(3) of this Act to the provision by a voluntary organisation of,\nsecure accommodation . . . .\n(2) The conditions subject to which grants are made under subsection (1) of this section may include conditions for securing the repayment in whole or in part of such grants.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words \"in residential establishment.\" and s. 72(3) repealed by Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41, SIF 13:3), Sch. 10 Pt. I)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 56–59, 72 and 93 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/72/section/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:35:55.776840+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}