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CH. 37
PART I
Increase of penalty for cruelty.
Increase of penalty for sales of
tobacco, etc., to persons under 16.
F:
New appeals.
Children and Young Persons Act 1963
Increase of certain penalties
31. In section 1 of the principal Act (cruelty to persons under sixteen) paragraph (b) of subsection (1) (which provides for a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds on summary conviction) shall be amended, as respects offences committed after the com- mencement of this Act, by the substitution for the words " twenty- five pounds" of the words " one hundred pounds ".
32. Section 7 of the principal Act and section 18 of the principal Scottish Act (which, in subsection (1), prohibit the sale of tobacco and cigarette papers to persons apparently under the age of sixteen and, in subsection (2), enable a court to order measures to be taken to prevent the use by such persons of automatic machines for the sale of tobacco) shall each be amended, as respects offences committed after the commence- ment of this Act, by substituting-
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(a) in subsection (1) (which provides for fines not exceed- ing two, five and ten pounds on a first, second or subsequent conviction) for the words two", "five" and "ten" the words " twenty-five ", " fifty" and "one hundred ", respectively; and
(b) in subsection (2) (which provides for fines not exceed- ing five pounds for failure to comply with the order of the court and further fines not exceeding one pound for each day during which the offence continues) for the words "five" and “ one "the words "fifty" and
ten ", respectively.
New appeals
33.-(1) Any person aggrieved by the decision of a juvenile court given after the commencement of this Act on an applica- tion under section 84(6) of the principal Act for the variation or revocation of an order committing a person to the care of a fit person may appeal against the decision to a court of quarter sessions.
(2) The grounds upon which a local authority named in an approved school order made after the commencement of this Act may appeal and the court substitute the name of another local authority under subsection (2) of section 90 of the principal Act shall include the ground that the person to whom the order relates is not known to have been resident within the district of any local authority and that the authority named in the order was not, but that other authority was, the local authority or one of the local authorities within whose district the offence was committed or the circumstances arose rendering him liable to be sent to an approved school.