Foster Children (Scotland) Act 1984
Foster children for the purposes of the Act
1 Foster children.
2 Exceptions to section 1.
Duties of local authorities
3 Local authorities to ensure well being of and to visit foster children.
Notification of fostering to local authorities
4 Notification by parents.
5 Notification by persons maintaining or proposing to maintain foster children.
6 Notification by persons ceasing to maintain foster children
Disqualification for fostering
7 Persons disqualified from keeping foster children.
Control by local authorities of fostering
8 Power to inspect premises.
9 Power to impose requirements as to the keeping of foster children.
10 Power to prohibit the keeping of foster children.
Proceedings
11 Appeal to sheriff against requirement or prohibition imposed under section 9 or 10.
12 Removal of foster children kept in unsuitable surroundings.
13 Search warrants.
Advertisements
14 Prohibition of advertisements relating to the fostering of children.
Offences
15 Offences relating to foster children.
Extension of provisions of the Act to other children
16 Extension of Act to certain school children during holidays.
17 Extension of Act to certain children above compulsory school age.
Miscellaneous and supplementary
18 Avoidance of insurances on lives of foster children.
19 Service of notices by post.
20 Regulations
21 Interpretation.
22 Transitional provisions, consequential amendments and repeals.
23 Citation
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Transitional Provisions
General
1Insofar as— (a) any requirement, prohibition, determination, order or regulation...
2Where any enactment passed before this Act, or any instrument...
3Where any period of time specified in any enactment repealed...
Visits by local authority officers under section 3(2)
4Until such time as the Secretary of State may by...
Notification under section 5
5(1) In this paragraph “the relevant date” means the date...
Children above compulsory school age
6Where immediately before the commencement of this Act Part I...
References to provisions of Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978
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Reference to Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984
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SCHEDULE 2
Consequential Amendments
Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948 (c. 53)
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Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46)
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Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49)
4In section 2(2)(d) (the social work committee), for “Part 1...
5In section 6(1)(b)(i) (supervision of establishments providing accommodation for persons),...
Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 28)
6In section 2(c) (local authorities’ social work), for “the Children...
7In section 32(3)(a) (meaning of protected child), for “subsection (3)...
Foster Children Act 1980 (c. 6)
8In section 7(1)(a) (persons disqualified from keeping foster children), after...
SCHEDULE 3 Repeals
TABLE OF DERIVATIONS

Foster Children (Scotland) Act 1984

1984 c. 56

An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to foster children as they have effect in Scotland

C1C2Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1

Act wholly in force at 31.1.1985 see s. 23(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

A Table showing the derivation of the provisions of this consolidation Act will be found at the end of the Act. The Table has no official status.

C2

Act restricted (12.12.1996 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 36, s. 38(6) (with ss. 90, 103(1)); S.I. 1996/3201, art. 3(1) (as amended by S.I. 1997/744, arts. 2, 3)