A.D. 1933.
2ND SCH. -cont.
Section 60.
[CH. 12.]
Children and
Young Persons Act, 1933.
[23 GEO. 5.]
(b) if at any time, by reason of illness or other emergency, no person so nominated is available to act as chairman of a juvenile court, any metropolitan police magistrate although not so nominated, or, with the consent of the Secretary of State, any justice of the peace selected from the panel, may act temporarily as chairman; and
(c) where it appears to the chairman that the court cannot without adjournment be fully constituted, and that the adjournment would be inexpedient in the interests of justice, he may sit with one justice selected from the panel (whether a man or a woman) or, if he is a metropolitan police magistrate, may sit alone.
(3) The Secretary of State, in nominating the chairmen of juvenile courts and the members of a panel, shall have regard to the previous experience of the persons available and their special qualifications for dealing with juvenile cases; and every such nomination shall be for a specified period and shall be revocable by the Secretary of State.
(4) An Order in Council made under this paragraph may contain such supplemental, incidental and consequential provisions as appear to His Majesty in Council to be necessary or proper for the purposes of the Order.
In the City of London.
3. Juvenile courts for the City of London shall be constituted in such manner as the Court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City may from time to time determine.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
AMENDMENTS OF CERTAIN ENACTMENTS RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AND COURTS OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
Enactment.
42 & 43 Vict. c. 49.
Summary Juris- diction Act, 1879.
Amendment.
For section ten there shall be substituted the following section :-
"10.—(1) A court of summary juris-
diction before whom a child is charged with an indictable offence other than homicide may, without consulting the parent or guardian of
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