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Children and Young Persons Act 1963

CH. 37

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against, or any conduct contrary to, decency or morality" shall be omitted and for the word "against " in paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words " by or against ".

(2) Section 49 of the principal Act and section 54 of the principal Scottish Act (which restrict newspaper reports of pro- ceedings in juvenile courts) shall, with the necessary modifica- tions, apply in relation to any proceedings on appeal from a juvenile court (including an appeal by case stated or, in Scotland, stated case) as they apply in relation to proceedings in a juvenile

court.

(3) In the said section 39 the expression "court" shall include any court in Scotland and in the said section 46 that expression shall include any court in England and Wales, and—

(a) in the said section 49 references to a juvenile court shall be construed as including references to a juvenile court as defined in section 50(5) of the principal Scottish Act or constituted in accordance with section 51 of that Act; and

(b) in the said section 54 references to a juvenile court shall be construed as including references to a juvenile court constituted in accordance with the principal Act.

(4) The said sections 39 and 49 and the said sections 46 and 54 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to sound and television broadcasts as they apply in relation to newspapers.

PART III

to visit and assist persons

58. Where a person was at or after the time when he attained Powers of the age of seventeen in the care of a local authority under the local authority Children Act 1948, the principal Act or the principal Scottish Act, or by virtue of an order under the Matrimonial Proceed- formerly in ings (Children) Act 1958 or the Matrimonial Proceedings their care. (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960, but has ceased to be in their care, then, while he is under the age of twenty-one, the local authority, if so requested by him, may cause him to be visited, advised and befriended and, in exceptional circumstances, to be given financial assistance.

59. (1) The Secretary of State may, after consulting such Adjustment local authorities or associations of local authorities as he thinks between local fit, by statutory instrument make regulations providing, in such authorities

of expenses of cases as may be prescribed by the regulations, for the recovery, maintaining by a local authority providing a remand home from such other persons in local authority as may be so prescribed, of such sum in respect remand homes. of a person detained in the remand home as may be determined in accordance with a rate prescribed from time to time by order made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument; and any such order may prescribe different rates for different circum-

stances.

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