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A.D. 1933.

PART III. -cont.

Miscella-

sions as to powers of juvenile

[CH. 12.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[23 GEO. 5.]

(3) The Lord Chancellor may make rules for regu- lating the procedure in juvenile courts, and such of the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts and of the Acts relating to indictable offences as regulate procedure shall have effect subject to any rules so made.

48.-(1) A juvenile court sitting for the purpose of neous provi- hearing a charge against, or an application relating to, a person who is believed to be a child or young person may, if it thinks fit to do so, proceed with the hearing and determination of the charge or application, not- withstanding that it is discovered that the person in question is not a child or young person.

courts.

7 Edw. 7. c. 17.

(2) Where the court before which any person is bound by his recognisance under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907, to appear is a juvenile court, the attainment by him of the age of seventeen years shall not deprive that court of jurisdiction to enforce his attendance and deal with him in respect of any failure to observe the conditions of his recognisance or of jurisdiction to vary or discharge the recognisance.

(3) When a juvenile court has remanded a child or young person for information to be obtained with respect to him, any juvenile court acting for the same petty sessional division or place-

(a) may in his absence extend the period for which he is remanded, so, however, that he appears before a court or a justice of the peace at least once in every twenty-one days;

(b) when the required information has been obtained,

may deal with him finally;

and where the court by which he was originally remanded has recorded a finding that he is guilty of an offence charged against him, it shall not be necessary for any court which subsequently deals with him under this sub- section to hear evidence as to the commission of that offence, except in so far as it may consider that such evidence will assist the court in determining the manner in which he should be dealt with.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (8) of section twenty of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, (which provides that an indictable offence shall not be dealt with summarily under that Act except on a day publicly appointed for the hearing of indictable offences)

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