4E+WIn section 46 of the Act of 1933, after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(1A)If a notification that the acused desires to plead guilty without appearing before the court is received by the clerk of a court in pursuance of section 1 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1957 and the court has no reason to believe that the accused is a child or young person, then, if he is a child or young person he shall be deemed to have attained the age of seventeen for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section in its application to the proceedings in question.”