{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-scotland-act-1937/section-101",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-scotland-act-1937/section-101.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/37",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-scotland-act-1937",
  "path": "section/101",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "101",
  "heading": "Powers, duties and expenses of local authorities, &c.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Expenses incurred under this Act by an education authority shall be defrayed in like manner as expenses of the authority under the Education (Scotland) Act 1962, . . .\nProvided that expenses incurred in respect of a child or young person brought to a poorhouse under this Act shall form part of the establishment charges of the poorhouse.\n(2A) Expenses incurred under this Act by a local authority shall be defrayed in like manner as the expenses of that authority under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n5), (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) A local authority, an education authority . . . or a committee to whom any powers of any such authority under this Act have been delegated, may by resolution empower the clerk or other officer of the authority to exercise in the name of the authority in any case which appears to him to be one of urgency any powers of the authority or, as the case may be, of the committee with respect to the institution of proceedings under this Act.\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 100, 101(1) repealed by National Assistance Act 1948 (c. 29), s. 62, Sch. 7 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by National Assistance Act 1948 (c. 29), s. 62, Sch. 7 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 101(2A) inserted by Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49), Sch. 8 para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 101(3) repealed (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), s. 129(2), sch. 8 Pt. 1; S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 101(4) repealed by Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 60), Sch. 7 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Ss. 59(1), 60, 61, 65, 66, 68–81, 83–85, 87(6), 88–98, 101(5)(6), 106, 107(2), 109, 111, 112, Schs. 2, 3 repealed by Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49), s. 95, Sch. 9 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 101(8) repealed by Local Government and Miscellaneous Financial Provisions (Scotland) Act 1958 (c. 64), Sch. 6 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/37/section/101",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:22.741659+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."
}