[23 GEO. 5.]
Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.
[CH. 12.]
person charged shall not, if he is summarily convicted, be A.D. 1933. liable to a separate penalty in respect of each child or young person except upon separate informations.
(2) The same information or summons may also charge any person as having the custody, charge, or care, alternatively or together, and may charge him with the offences of assault, ill-treatment, neglect, abandonment, or exposure, together or separately, and may charge him with committing all or any of those offences in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health, alternatively or together, but when those offences are charged together the person charged shall not, if he is summarily convicted, be liable to a separate penalty for each.
(3) A person shall not be summarily convicted of an offence mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, unless the offence was wholly or partly committed within six months before the information was laid; but, subject as aforesaid, evidence may be taken of acts constituting, or contributing to constitute, the offence, and committed at any previous time.
(4) When any offence mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act charged against any person is a continuous offence, it shall not be necessary to specify in the infor- mation, summons, or indictment, the date of the acts constituting the offence.
PART I.
-cont.
15. As respects proceedings against any person for Evidence of any of the offences mentioned in the First Schedule to husband or this Act, the Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, shall apply wife of as if the Schedule to that Act included references to those offences.
Supplemental.
16. Every misdemeanour under this Part of this Act shall be deemed to be an offence within, and subject to, the provisions of the Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859.
Act-
accused
person. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 36.
Application of Indictments Act,
Vexatious
22 & 23 Vict. c. 17.
17. For the purposes of this Part of this Interpre-
Any person who is the parent or legal guardian of a child or young person or who is legally liable to maintain him shall be presumed to have the custody of him, and as between father and
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tation of Part I.