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Children and Young Persons Act 1963

CH. 37

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SCHEDULE 3

MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

The principal Act

1. In section 1(1), the words "or in default of payment of such a fine " shall be omitted in both places where they occur.

2. In section 3, the words "or in default of payment of such a fine" shall be omitted.

3. In section 4(1), the words "or in default of payment of such a fine" shall be omitted.

4. For subsection (3) of section 18 there shall be substituted the following subsection:-

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(3) Nothing in this section, or in any byelaw made under this section, shall prevent a child from taking part in a performance--

(a) under the authority of a licence granted under this Part

of this Act; or

(b) in a case where by virtue of section 37(3) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 no licence under that section is required for him to take part in the performance."

5. In section 23, for the words "public performance" there shall be substituted the words "performance to which section 37 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 applies and ".

6. (1) In subsection (2) of section 24 for the words "petty sessional court" there shall be substituted the words "local authority".

(2) In subsection (4) of that section for the word "court", in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted the word

authority".

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7. In the proviso to section 25(1), for the words "Great Britain and Ireland there shall be substituted the words "the United Kingdom ".

8. In section 26(1), the words "or in default of payment of such a fine" shall be omitted.

9. In section 28(1) for the words "an entertainment or perform- ance" there shall be substituted the words " a performance ".

10. In section 29(3), for the words "The said provisions" there shall be substituted the words "The provisions of this Part of this Act relating to employment ".

11. In section 40(1), for the words from " to take him " to "detain him there" there shall be substituted the words "to take him to a place of safety, or authorising any constable to remove him with or without search to a place of safety, and a child or young person taken to a place of safety in pursuance of such a warrant may be detained there".

12. In section 48(1), the words "or an application relating to and the words or application" shall be omitted.

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Section 64.