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[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[CH. 12.]

conduct contrary to, decency or morality, the court may A.D. 1933. direct that

PART III.

(a) no newspaper report of the proceedings shall -cont. reveal the name, address, or school, or include of certain any particulars calculated to lead to the identi- matter in fication, of any child or young person concerned newspapers. in the proceedings, either as being the person against or in respect of whom the proceedings

we are taken, or as being a witness therein; (b) no picture shall be published in any newspaper as being or including a picture of any child or young person so concerned in the proceedings as aforesaid;

except in so far (if at all) as may be permitted by the direction of the court.

(2) Any person who publishes any matter in con- travention of any such direction shall on summary conviction be liable in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

Special Procedure with regard to Offences specified

in First Schedule.

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40.-(1) If it appears to a justice of the peace on Warrant to information on oath laid by any person who, in the search for or opinion of the justice, is acting in the interests of a child or young person, that there is reasonable cause to suspect-

(a) that the child or young person has been or is being assaulted, ill-treated, or neglected in any place within the jurisdiction of the justice, in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering, or injury to health; or

(b) that any offence mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act has been or is being committed in respect of the child or young person,

the justice may issue a warrant authorising any constable named therein to search for the child or young person, and, if it is found that he has been or is being assaulted, ill-treated, or neglected in manner aforesaid, or that any such offence as aforesaid has been or is being committed in respect of him, to take him to and detain him in a place of safety, until he can be brought before a juvenile court,

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child or

young

person.