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Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.
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person appearing to have signed any such report or A.D. 1933. deposition.
(5) The wife or husband of a person charged with an offence under this section may be called as a witness either for the prosecution or defence, and without the consent of the person charged.
(6) A constable or any person authorised by a justice of the peace may take to a place of safety any person under the age of seventeen years who there is reason to believe is about to go abroad in contravention of the provisions of the last foregoing section, and a person so taken to a place of safety may be detained there until he can be restored to his relatives or until other arrangements can be made with respect to him.
Supplemental.
PART II. -cont.
27.—(1) A byelaw made under this Part of this Act Byelaws. shall not have effect until confirmed by the Secretary of State and shall not be so confirmed until at least thirty days after the local authority have published it in such manner as the Secretary of State directs.
(2) Before confirming such a byelaw the Secretary of State shall consider any objections thereto which may be addressed to him by persons affected or likely to be affected thereby, and may order a local enquiry to be held, and where such an enquiry is held, the person holding it shall receive such remuneration as the Secretary of State determines, and that remunera- tion and the expenses of the enquiry shall be paid by the local authority.
(3) Byelaws so made may, without prejudice to any other method of proof, be proved in the like manner as
that in which byelaws made under the Public Health 38 & 39 Vict. Act, 1875, by a local authority, not being the council of c. 55. a borough, may be proved, and section one hundred and eighty-six of that Act shall apply accordingly.
28.—(1) If it is made to appear to a justice of Powers of the peace by the local authority, or by any constable, entry. that there is reasonable cause to believe that the provisions of this Part of this Act, other than those relating to employment abroad, or of a byelaw made under the said provisions, are being contravened with
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