TNAG-0585-FCO40-718-Employment-of-children-in-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 143

[CH. 12.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[23 GEO. 5.]

A.D. 1933. the Secretary of State attain the age of nineteen years

nor later-

PART III.

-cont.

Miscella-

neous pro-

visions as to summary proceedings against juvenile

offenders.

(a) in the case of a person who was undergoing detention in a Borstal Institution, or was sentenced to detention under the said sub- section (2), than the date on which his detention would have expired;

(b) in the case of a young person who has been sentenced to imprisonment and pardoned as aforesaid, than three years from the date as from which his sentence began to run.

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59.-(1) The words "conviction and "sentence shall cease to be used in relation to children and young persons dealt with summarily and any reference in any enactment to a person convicted, a conviction or a sentence shall, in the case of a child or young person, be construed as including a reference to a person found guilty of an offence, a finding of guilt or an order made upon such a finding, as the case may be:

Provided that for the purposes of paragraph_(b) of subsection (1) of section ten of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914 (which relates to the power to send youthful delinquents to Borstal institutions), a finding that a person is guilty of an offence shall not have the effect of a conviction if he was dealt with for that offence under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907.

(2) Where a child or young person is himself ordered by a court of summary jurisdiction to pay costs in addition to a fine, the amount of the costs so ordered to be paid shall in no case exceed the amount of the fine.

60.-The amendments specified in the second ments relating to column of the Third Schedule to this Act shall be made in the enactments mentioned in the first column of that Schedule.

Amendments of certain enact-

criminal proceed-

ings and courts

of summary

jurisdiction.

Definition

Children and Young Persons in need of Care or

Protection.

61. (1) For the purposes of this Act a child or of "in need

young person in need of care or protection means a of care or protection." person who is-

(a) a child or young person who, having no parent or guardian or a parent or guardian unfit to

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