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Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1958

6 & 7 Eliz. 2 c. 33 · Enacted 7 July 1958 · Extends to England, Wales and Scotland

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An Act to amend the law relating to disabled persons as regards the minimum age for attendance at certain courses under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944, as regards registration under that Act and as regards the provision by local authorities of employment or other work under special conditions.

[7th July 1958]C1

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Act: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1

Contents

  1. 1Minimum age for attendance at courses.
  2. 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  3. 3Provision of sheltered employment by local authorities.
  4. 4Short title, citation, construction and extent.
  5. Schedule: Sheltered Employment (Supplementary Provisions)
  6. 1Paragraph 1 Repealed
  7. Paragraph Repealed
  8. Paragraph Repealed
  9. Paragraph Repealed

1Minimum age for attendance at courses.C1

In sections two and three of the principal Act (which relate to the provision of vocational training courses and industrial rehabilitation courses for disabled persons, not being under the age of sixteen years) for the words “ not being under the age of sixteen years” there shall in each case be substituted the words “ being over compulsory school age for the purposes of the Education Act, 1944, or, in Scotland, over school age for the purposes of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1946”.

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3Provision of sheltered employment by local authorities.C3

(1)

A local authority F1in England or Scotland F2shall have power under this section tomay, with the approval of the Secretary of State, and to such extent as he may direct in relation to persons ordinarily resident in the authority’s area shall make arrangements for the provision of facilities for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) of section fifteen of the principal Act (which relates to the provision for registered persons who are seriously disabled of employment, or work on their own account, under special conditions, and of training for such employment or work); F3and in relation to persons ordinarily resident in the area of a local authority, the authority shall, to such extent as the F4Secretary of State may direct, be under a duty to exercise their powers under this subsection.

(2)

The powers and duties of a local authority under subsection (1) of this section shall be in lieu of any power or duty of the authority to make arrangements for the same purposes under F5section twenty-nine of the M1National Assistance Act 1948, or under F6F7... paragraph 2 of Schedule 15 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 or F8section 38 of the M2National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

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The arrangements made by a local authority under this section shall be carried into effect F9subject to the approval of the Secretary of State.

C2(4)

The Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of applying or adapting the enactments there mentioned for the purpose of this section, and for making other provisions supplementary to this section; and the foregoing subsections shall have effect subject to the provision made by that Schedule.

(5)

For the purpose of this section “local authority” means as respects England F10. . ., the council of a county F11 . . . F12, or of a metropolitan district or London borough or the Common Council of the City of London and, as respects Scotland, F13a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994F14F15and in relation to Wales, the council of a county or county borough.

(6)

This section shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine.

4Short title, citation, construction and extent.

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1958.

(2)

In this Act “the principal Act” means the M1Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944, and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Disabled Persons (Employment) Acts 1944 and 1958.

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References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment.

(4)

This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

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