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PART I

CH. 37

Children and Young Persons Act 1963

(2) Any supervision order (whether made before or after the commencement of this Act) which places a person under the supervision of a probation officer shall have effect as an order placing him under the supervision of a probation officer appointed for or assigned to the petty sessions area for the time being named in the order (or, if none is named in the order, the petty sessions area in which that person resides) and selected in accord- ance with Schedule 1 to this Act.

(3) A local authority may be appointed as the person under whose supervision a person is placed by a supervision order but, except where that person resides or will reside in their area, shall not be so appointed without their consent.

(4) The provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act (which reproduce the effect of certain enactments relating to supervision orders with amendments consequential on the preceding provisions of this section and certain other amendments) shall have effect with regard to supervision orders, whether made before or after the commencement of this Act.

(5) In this section and Schedule 1 to this Act, "petty sessions area" includes a division of the metropolitan area referred to in Part II of Schedule 2 to this Act.

Extension of s. 66 of principal Act.

6. (1) The powers of the juvenile court before which a person is brought under section 66(1) of the principal Act by a proba- tion officer or other person under whose supervision he was placed by an order under that Act shall include power-

(a) to order his parent or guardian to enter into a recogniz- ance to exercise proper care and guardianship; and

(b) in a case where the court orders him to be sent to an approved school or commits him to the care of a fit person, to revoke the order placing him under the supervision of the person by whom he is brought before

the court;

and where the court exercises its power under paragraph (b) of this subsection to revoke the order mentioned therein, section 76 of the principal Act (which authorises committal to the care of a local authority) shall apply as it applies where no such order is in force.

The Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 shall apply in relation to a recognizance under this subsection as it applies in relation to a recognizance to be of good behaviour.

(2) The age up to which a person may be brought before the court and dealt with under the said section 66 shall be eighteen instead of seventeen years.