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[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and

Young Persons Act, 1933.

DICU

DROIT

[CH. 12.]

CHAPTER 12.

An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating A.D. 1933.

to persons under the age of eighteen years.

[13th April 1933.]

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

PART I.

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND EXPOSURE TO MORAL AND PHYSICAL DANGER.

Offences.

teen.

1.-1) If any person who has attained the age of Cruelty sixteen years and has the custody, charge, or care of any to persons child or young person under that age, wilfully assaults, under six- ill-treats, neglects, abandons, or exposes him, or causes or procures him to be assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned, or exposed, in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health (including injury to or loss of sight, or hearing, or limb, or organ of the body, and any mental derangement), that person shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable-

(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not ex- ceeding one hundred pounds, or alternatively, or in default of payment of such a fine, or in addition thereto, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years;

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