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Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.
Provided that-
[CH. 12.]
A.D. 1933.
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(a) the powers and duties of a local authority PART VL
with respect to the granting of licences for children to take part in entertainments shall be powers and duties of the London County Council in their capacity as local education authority for elementary education; and (b) nothing in this section shall exempt the City of London from the liability to contribute towards the expenses incurred by the London County Council as local authority under this Act, but the London County Council shall in each year repay to the Common Council any contributions paid by the Common Council in respect of persons under the care of the managers of an approved school.
98. (1) A local authority or a poor law authority Institution may institute proceedings for any offence under this Act, or under Part I of the Children Act, 1908.
of proceed- ings by local or poor law
(2) Any such authority may appear by their clerk authorities. or other officer duly authorised in that behalf in any proceedings instituted by them under this Act.
Supplementary Provisions as to Legal Proceedings.
determina-
99.-(1) Where a person, whether charged with Presump- an offence or not, is brought before any court otherwise tion and than for the purpose of giving evidence, and it appears tion of age. to the court that he is a child or young person, the court shall make due inquiry as to the age of that person, and for that purpose shall take such evidence as may be forthcoming at the hearing of the case, but an order or judgment of the court shall not be invalidated by any subsequent proof that the age of that person has not been correctly stated to the court, and the age presumed or declared by the court to be the age of the person so brought before it shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the true age of that person, and, where it appears to the court that the person so brought before it has attained the age of seventeen years, that person shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed not to be a child or young person.
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