Children and Young Persons Act 1963
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practicable to inform at least one person whose attendance may be required under this section ".
(2) Where a person apparently under the age of seventeen who has been arrested and charged with an offence is released under section 32(1) of the principal Act on his parent or guardian entering into a recognizance to secure his attendance upon the hearing of the charge, the recognizance may be con- ditioned for the attendance at the hearing of the parent or guardian as well as the person charged.
PART I
certificate.
26. In any proceedings, other than proceedings for an offence, Medical before a juvenile court, and on any appeal from a decision of a evidence by juvenile court in any such proceedings, any document purporting to be a certificate of a fully registered medical practitioner as to any person's physical or mental condition shall be admissible as evidence of that condition.
27.-(1) In any proceedings before a magistrates' court Evidence of inquiring into a sexual offence as examining justices-
children in committal
(a) a child shall not be called as a witness for the prosecu- proceedings
tion; but
(b) any statement made in writing by or taken in writing from the child shall be admissible in evidence of any matter of which his oral testimony would be admissible;
except in a case where the application of this subsection is ex- cluded under subsection (2) of this section.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply-
(a) where at or before the time when such a statement is tendered in evidence the defence objects to the applica- tion of that subsection; or
(b) where the prosecution requires the attendance of the child for the purpose of establishing the identity of any person; or
(c) where the court is satisfied that it has not been possible to obtain from the child a statement that may be given in evidence under this section; or
(d) where the inquiry into the offence takes place after the court has discontinued to try it summarily and the child has given evidence in the summary trial.
(3) Section 23 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (which, in a case where an inquiry into an offence is followed by sum- mary trial, treats evidence given for the purposes of the inquiry as having been given for the purposes of the trial) shall not apply to any statement admitted in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section.
(4) In this section "sexual offence" means any offence under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 or the Indecency with Children Act 1960, or any attempt to commit such an offence.
for sexual offences.