Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1958

Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1958 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. 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”. A local authority in England or Scotland shall 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); and in relation to persons ordinarily resident in the area of a local authority, the authority shall, to such extent as the Secretary of State may direct, be under a duty to exercise their powers under this subsection. 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 section twenty-nine of the National Assistance Act 1948, or under ... paragraph 2 of Schedule 15 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 or section 38 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. The arrangements made by a local authority under this section shall be carried into effect subject to the approval of the Secretary of State. 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. For the purpose of this section “local authority” means as respects England . . ., the council of a county . . . , or of a metropolitan district or London borough or the Common Council of the City of London and, as respects Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994and in relation to Wales, the council of a county or county borough. This section shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine. This Act may be cited as the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1958. In this Act “the principal Act” means the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944, and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Disabled Persons (Employment) Acts 1944 and 1958. References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment. This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Act: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1 The text of Ss. 1, 2(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals that may have been made prior to 1.2.1991 S. 2 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, s. 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2, Sch. 3 Pt. III S. 3 amended (E.W.) by Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42), s. 2, Sch. 1 Words “may, with” to “area shall” substituted (E.W.) for words “shall have” to “section to” by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 23 para. 6(1) Words repealed (E.W.) by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 23 para. 6(1) Words substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 27 Pt. II para. 134(a) 1948 c. 29. Words substituted by virtue of National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Sch. 15 para. 2 1978 c. 29. S. 3(3) repealed (E.W.)by Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42), Sch. 3 and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30 Words substituted (S.) by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 27 Pt. II para. 134(b) S. 3(4) repealed (S.) by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 2 Words in s. 3(5) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, ss. 22(4), 66(8), Sch. 10 para. 3, Sch. 18 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2 Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 195(6), Sch. 23 para. 6(1) Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17 Words in s. 3(5) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 49; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c) Words in s. 3(5) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(4), Sch. 10 para. 3 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2 1944 c. 10. Words in s. 3(2) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 19 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1) Words in s. 3(2) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of The Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/914), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 11 (with arts. 1(3), 3) Sch. omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (No. 413), regs. 2(1), 12 Words in s. 3(1) inserted (E.W.) (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (No. 413), regs. 2(1), 11(a) Words in s. 3(2) omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (No. 413), regs. 2(1), 11(b) Words in s. 3(5) omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (No. 413), regs. 2(1), 11(c)