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CH. 37
PART I
Constitution
of London Sessions for purposes of committals
Children and Young Persons Act 1963
(5) Rules under subsection (3) of this section may provide, in the case of any borough or class of borough, either-
(a) that the said justices shall be selected also from the juvenile court panel for any other area which includes part of the county in which the borough is situated (or, in the case of a county borough, of a county which has a common boundary with it); or
(b) that they shall be so selected instead of being selected from the panel mentioned in subsection (4) of this section.
20. For the purpose of dealing with the case of a person committed by a juvenile court under section 28 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 or section 67 of the Mental Health Act 1959 a court of quarter sessions for the county of London shall be from juvenile constituted in accordance with the provisions of section 8 of the Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act 1933, as modified in their application to appeals from a juvenile court by section 18(4) of the Criminal Justice Administration Act 1956.
courts.
Abolition of special time limit for
indictable
21. Section 14(3) of the principal Act (which, as respects the summary trial of the offences mentioned in Schedule 1 to that Act, makes provision, similar to that made as respects summary trial generally by section 104 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952, for limiting the time within which proceedings may be principal Act. begun but, unlike that section, extends to summary trial under
section 19, 20 or 21 of the said Act of 1952) is hereby repealed.
offences
in Sch. 1 to
Children and young persons arrested and not released.
Children and
young persons detained in places of safety.
22. (1) Where a person apparently under the age of seventeen has been arrested without warrant for an offence and is neither brought forthwith before a magistrates' court nor released, he shall be brought before a magistrates' court within seventy-two hours unless an officer of police of a rank not less than inspector certifies to a magistrates' court within that period that by reason of illness or accident the said person cannot be brought before the court.
(2) Where in pursuance of this section a person is brought before a magistrates' court or a certificate relating to any person is produced to a magistrates' court, the court may remand him.
23. (1) A court or justice of the peace-
(a) authorising any person under section 26(6) or section 67(1) of the principal Act to take a child or young person to a place of safety; or
(b) issuing a warrant under section 40 of that Act autho- rising a constable to take a child or young person to a place of safety; or
(c) ordering the removal of a child or young person to a place of safety under section 7 of the Children Act 1958
or section 43 of the Adoption Act 1958;
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