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A.D. 1933.

PART VI. -cont.

Transitory provisions.

52 & 53 Vict.

c. 63.

[CH. 12.]

Children and

Young Persons Act, 1933.

[23 GEO. 5.]

which is willing temporarily to receive a child or young person;

"Police authority"

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means as respects the city of London, the common council, and elsewhere has the same meaning as in the Police Act, 1890; Poor law authority means the council of a county or county borough and includes also a joint committee of two or more such councils established under section three of the Poor Law Act, 1930;

Prescribed means prescribed by regulations made

by the Secretary of State;

"Public place" includes any public park, garden, sea beach or railway station, and any ground to which the public for the time being have or are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise;

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Street" includes any highway and any public bridge, road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not;

Young person

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means a person who has attained the age of fourteen years and is under the age of seventeen years.

(2) References in this Act to findings of guilty and findings that an offence has been committed shall be construed as including references to pleas of guilty and admissions that an offence has been committed.

(3) References in this Act to any enactment or to any provision in any enactment shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to that enactment or provision as amended by any subsequent enactment including this Act.

108.--(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of the Interpretation Act, 1889, with respect to repeals, the transitory provisions set out in the Fifth Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purposes of the transition to the provisions of this Act from the provisions of the enactments repealed by the Children and Young Persons Geo. 5. c. 46. Act, 1932, and by this Act.

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(2) References in any Act to places of detention provided under section one hundred and eight of the Children Act, 1908, shall be construed as references to remand homes provided under this Act.

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