The Residential Care Order (Secure Accommodation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1092
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Residential Care Order (Secure Accommodation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st August 1988.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Residential Care Order (Secure Accommodation) (Scotland) Regulations 1988( ).

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) the definition of “managers” shall be deleted and there shall be substituted the following entry:—

“managers” means—

in the case of a voluntary organisation, the management committee to whom powers are delegated within the organisation for management of the residential establishment providing secure accommodation;

in the case of a local authority, those officers exercising powers standing referred to the Social Work Committee under section 2(2) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968( ), or subject to an arrangement under section 161(3) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973( ), for the management of the residential establishment providing secure accommodation;