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Children and Young Persons Act 1963

CH. 37

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(2) In section 47(2) of the principal Act (which relates to sittings of juvenile courts) for the words from "subject as hereinafter provided to "other courts are held" there shall be substituted the words "not sit in a room in which sittings of a court other than a juvenile court are held if a sitting of that other court has been or will be held there within an hour before or after the sitting of the juvenile court ".

PART I

courts in

18. Notwithstanding section 46(1) of the principal Act (which Jurisdiction of restricts the jurisdiction of magistrates' courts which are not magistrates' juvenile courts in cases where a child or young person is charged certain cases with an offence) a magistrates' court which is not a juvenile involving court may hear an information against a child or young person children if he is charged-

(a) with aiding, abetting, causing, procuring, allowing or permitting an offence with which a person who has attained the age of seventeen is charged at the same time; or

(b) with an offence arising out of circumstances which are the same as or connected with those giving rise to an offence with which a person who has attained the age of seventeen is charged at the same time.

and young

persons.

committals

19.-(1) Where a court of quarter sessions for a borough deals Assessors for with a case on appeal from a juvenile court or with the case recorder in of a person committed by a juvenile court to quarter sessions appeals and under section 28 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 or section from juvenile 67 of the Mental Health Act 1959, the recorder shall, where courts. practicable, be assisted by two members of a juvenile court panel, who shall sit with him and act as assessors.

(2) Where in any case only one such member is available the recorder may sit with that member, and where in any case no such member is available and it appears to the recorder that an adjournment would not be in the interests of justice, he may sit alone.

(3) The Lord Chancellor may by rules made by statutory instrument make provision for the selection of justices to act under subsection (1) of this section and for securing their presence on the bench, and those rules shall secure that, so far as prac- ticable, of any two justices assisting the recorder one is a man and one a woman.

(4) Except where rules under the preceding subsection other- wise provide, the said justices shall be selected from the juvenile court panel for the borough (or, if the borough is part of an area for which a combined panel has been formed in pursuance of Schedule 2 to this Act, the juvenile court panel for that area).