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[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[CH. 12.]

PART I.

-cont.

cigarette papers in the possession of any person appar- A.D. 1933. ently under the age of sixteen years whom he finds smoking in any street or public place, and any tobacco or cigarette papers so seized shall be disposed of, if seized by a constable, in such manner as the police authority may direct, and if seized by a park-keeper, in such manner as the authority or person by whom he was appointed may direct.

(4) Nothing in this section shall make it an offence to sell tobacco or cigarette papers to, or shall authorise the seizure of tobacco or cigarette papers in the possession of, any person who is at the time employed by a manu- facturer of or dealer in tobacco, either wholesale or retail, for the purposes of his business, or is a boy messenger in uniform in the employment of a messenger company and employed as such at the time.

(5) For the purposes of this section the expression CC tobacco includes cigarettes and smoking mixtures intended as a substitute for tobacco, and the expression cigarettes " includes cut tobacco rolled up in paper, tobacco leaf, or other material in such form as to be capable of immediate use for smoking.

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pawns from

persons under

8. If a pawnbroker takes an article in pawn from Taking any person apparently under the age of fourteen years, whether offered by that person on his own behalf or on fourteen. behalf of any other person, he shall be guilty of an offence 35 & 36 Vict. against the Pawnbrokers Act, 1872.

c. 93.

9.—(1) If a dealer in old metal as defined by the Purchase Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, or a marine store dealer of old metals

from per- within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping

sons under Act, 1894, purchases from any person apparently under sixteen. the age of sixteen years any old metal, whether offered 34 & 35 Vict. for sale by that person on his own behalf or on behalf c. 112. of any other person, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(2) For the purposes of this section "old metal includes scrap metal, broken metal, or partly manu- factured metal goods, and old or defaced metal goods.

57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.

·10.-(1) If a person habitually wanders from place Vagrants to place and takes with him any child who has attained preventing the

age of five years he shall, unless he proves that the children

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