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Section 30 Financial assistance towards expenses of education or training and removal of power to guarantee indentures etc.C1

Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Without prejudice to section 12 of the M1Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (general social welfare services of local authorities), a local authority may make—

(a)

grants to any relevant person in their area to enable him to meet expenses connected with his receiving education or training; and

(b)

contributions to the accommodation and maintenance of any such person in any place near where he may be—

(i)

employed, or seeking employment; or

(ii)

receiving education or training.

(2)

F1A person is a relevant person for the purposes of subsection (1) above if—

(a)

he is F2at least sixteen years of age but not yet F3twenty-six years of age; and

F4(b)

he either—

(i)

was (on his sixteenth birthday or at any subsequent time) but is no longer looked after by a local authority; or

(ii)

is of such other description of person formerly but no longer looked after by a local authority as the Scottish Ministers may specify by order.

(2A)

An order made under subsection (2)(b)(ii) above is subject to the affirmative procedure.

F5(3)

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(4)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word in s. 30(2) substituted (1.8.2014 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 66(3)(a)(i), 102(3); S.S.I. 2014/131, art. 2(2)(3), sch.; S.S.I. 2015/61, art. 2(1)(2), sch.

F2

Words in s. 30(2)(a) substituted (1.8.2014 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), s. 66(3)(a)(ii)(A), 102(3); S.S.I. 2014/131, art. 2(2)(3), sch.; S.S.I. 2015/61, art. 2(1)(2), sch.

F3

Word in s. 30(2)(a) substituted (1.8.2014 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), s. 66(3)(a)(ii)(B), 102(3); S.S.I. 2014/131, art. 2(2)(3), sch.; S.S.I. 2015/61, art. 2(1)(2), sch.

F4

S. 30(2)(b)(2A) substituted for s. 30(2)(b) (1.8.2014 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 66(3)(a)(iii), 102(3); S.S.I. 2014/131, art. 2(2)(3), sch.; S.S.I. 2015/61, art. 2(1)(2), sch.

F5

S. 30(3)(4) omitted (1.8.2014 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 66(3)(b), 102(3); S.S.I. 2014/131, art. 2(2)(3), sch.; S.S.I. 2015/61, art. 2(1)(2), sch.

Marginal citations

M1

1968 c.49.

Modifications

C1

S. 30 restricted (8.1.2003) by 2002 c. 41, art. 54, Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(i); S.I. 2002/2811, art. 2, Sch. (with arts. 3-6)

Notes on Chapter 1

Modifications

C1

Pt. II Ch. 1 (ss. 16-38) modifed (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1996/3255, reg. 7(1)