[23 GEO. 5.]
Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.
[CH. 12.]
of some matter or thing required to be done in a proceeding A.D. 1933. before a court of summary jurisdiction is enforceable.
(7) If in any case where a licence has been granted under this section, it is proved to the satisfaction of a police magistrate that by reason of exceptional circum- stances it is not in the interests of the person to whom the licence relates to require him to return from abroad at the expiration of the licence, then, notwithstanding anything in this section or any restriction or condition attached to the licence, the magistrate may by order release all persons concerned from any obligation to cause that person to return from abroad.
(8) Where a licence is granted, renewed or varied under this section, the police magistrate shall send the prescribed particulars to the Secretary of State for trans- mission to the proper consular officer, and every consular officer shall register the particulars so transmitted to him and perform such other duties in relation thereto as the Secretary of State may direct.
(9) In this section the expression "police magistrate" means one of the following magistrates, that is to say-
(a) the chief magistrate of the metropolitan police
courts;
(b) any magistrate of the metropolitan police court
in Bow Street;
(c) any stipendiary magistrate appointed by Order in Council to exercise jurisdiction under this section,
and the powers conferred by this section on a police magistrate shall in every case be exercisable by any of the magistrates aforesaid.
(10) This and the next following section extend to Scotland and to Northern Ireland.
PART II.
-cont.
26.-(1) If any person acts in contravention of the Punishment provisions of subsection (1) of the last foregoing section of contra- he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be ventions liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or, alternatively, or in default of payment of such a fine, or in addition thereto, to imprison- proceedings ment for any term not exceeding three months:
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of last foregoing section and
with respect thereto.