The Secretary of State may, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine, give to a voluntary organisation to which this section applies assistance by way of grant or by way of loan, or partly in the one way and partly in the other.
This section applies to a voluntary organisation whose activities consist in, or include, the provision of a service similar to a relevant service, the promotion of the provision of a relevant service or a similar one, the publicising of a relevant service or a similar one or the giving of advice with respect to the manner in which a relevant service or a similar one can best be provided.
In this section—
(xviii) the Adoption and Children Act 2002,
(xviii) the National Health Service Act 2006 and the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006,
(xxiii) section 15 and Part 4 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;
This section shall have effect in Scotland as if, in subsection (1) thereof, for the reference to the Minister of Health, there were substituted a reference to the Secretary of State; and as if, in subsection (3) thereof, for paragraphs (a) and (b), there were substituted the following paragraphs:—
(a)“the relevant enactments” means ... , Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948 and Part I of this Act and section 45 thereof and the National Health Service Scotland Act 1978; (b) “relevant service” means a service which must or may, by virtue of the relevant enactments, be provided or the provision of which must or may, by virtue of those enactments, be secured by the Secretary of State or by a county council or by the town council of a large burgh; or a service for the provision of which a Health Board is, by virtue of Part II of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 under a duty to make arrangements or any service which a Health Board is under a duty to provide under section 2C of that Act; and