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Paragraph 5 F1

United Kingdom

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

In section 20 of that Act (duty of local authority to further the best interests of a child in their care)—

(a)

in subsection (1), for the words “, the local authority” there shall be substituted the words “or of a voluntary organisation, they”;

(b)

in subsection (2), for the words “a local authority” there shall be substituted the word “they”, and after the words “the local authority”, there shall be inserted the words “or voluntary organisation”; and

(c)

in subsection (3), after the word “authority”, there shall be inserted the words “or voluntary organisation”, and for the words “section 17(3)” there be substituted the words “sections 17(3), 17(3A)”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 2 paras. 4-6, 8 repealed (S.) (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4)(5), Sch. 4 para. 32, Sch. 5 (with Sch. 3 paras. 4, 6); S.I. 1996/3201, art. 3(7) (as substituted (7.3.1997) by S.I. 1997/744, art. 2)