[23 GEO. 5.]
Enactment.
Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.
Amendment.
[CH. 12.]
the child, deal with him summarily and shall so deal with him unless some other person who is charged jointly with him and is not a child is committed for trial, in which case the court may, if in the interests of justice they think it necessary so to do, also commit the child for trial, (2) A court of summary jurisdiction who deal summarily with a child in respect of an indictable offence shall, in addition to any other powers exercisable by virtue of this or any other Act, have power to impose a fine not exceeding forty shillings and when the child is a male, to adjudge the child to be, as soon as practicable, privately whipped with not more than six strokes of a birch rod by a constable, in the presence of an inspector or other officer of police of higher rank than a con- stable, and also in the presence, if he desires to be present, of the parent or guardian of the child."
In subsection (2) of section eleven the words "by the evidence" shall be omitted.
In subsection (3) of section seventeen the words from "unless the parent or guardian" to the end of the sub- section shall be omitted.
a
In section forty-nine, for the definitions of child and young person there shall be substituted the following definitions— "The expression 'child' means
person who in the opinion of the court before whom he is brought is under the age of fourteen years. The expression' young person means a person who in the opinion of the court before whom he is brought is of the age of fourteen years and under the age of seventeen years.
>
"
A.D. 1933.
3RD SCH. -cont.
D
89
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.