Children and Young Persons Act 1969

70 Interpretation and ancillary provisions

(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, the following expressions have the following meanings :—

• " the Act of 1933 " means the [1933 c. 12.] Children and Young Persons Act 1933 ;

• " the Act of 1963 " means the [1963 c. 37.] Children and Young Persons Act 1963 ;

• " approved school order ", " guardian " and " place of safety " have the same meanings as in the Act of 1933 ;

• " care order " has the meaning assigned to it by section 20 of this Act;

• " child ", except in Part II (including Schedule 3) and sections 27, 63, 64 and 65 of this Act, means a person under the age of fourteen, and in that Part (including that Schedule) and those sections means a person under the age of eighteen and a person who has attained the age of eighteen and is the subject of a care order;

• " instrument of management" means an instrument of management made under section 39 of this Act;

• " interim order " has the meaning assigned to it by section 20 of this Act;

• " local authority " means the council of a county, county borough or London borough or the Common Council of the City of London ;

• " petty sessions area " has the same meaning as in the [1952 c. 55.] Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 except that, in relation to a juvenile court constituted for the metropolitan area within the meaning of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1963, it means such a division of that area as is mentioned in paragraph 14 of that Schedule;

• " planning area " has the meaning assigned to it by section 35(1) of this Act;

• " police officer " means a member of a police force ;

• " regional plan " has the meaning assigned to it by section 36(1) of this Act;

• " the relevant authorities ", in relation to a planning area, has the meaning assigned to it by section 35(3) of this Act;

• " reside " means habitually reside, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly except in section 12(4) and (5) of this Act;

• " supervision order ", " supervised person " and " supervisor " have the meanings assigned to them by section 11 of this Act;

• " trust deed ", in relation to a voluntary home, has the meaning assigned to it by section 40(5) of this Act;

• " voluntary home " has the same meaning as in Part V of the Act of 1933 ;

• " voluntary organisation " has the same meaning as in the [1948 c. 43.] Children Act 1948 ; and

• " young person " means a person who has attained the age of fourteen and is under the age of seventeen;

and it is hereby declared that, in the expression " care or control ", " care " includes protection and guidance and " control " includes discipline.

(2) Without prejudice to any power apart from this subsection to bring proceedings on behalf of another person, any power to make an application which is exercisable by a child or young person by virtue of section 15(1), 21(2), 22(4) or (6) or 28(5) of this Act shall also be exercisable on his behalf by his parent or guardian; and in this subsection " guardian" includes any person who was a guardian of the child or young person in question at the time when any supervision order, care order or warrant to which the application relates was originally made.

(3) In section 99(1) of the Act of 1933 (under which the age which a court presumes or declares to be the age of a person brought before it is deemed to be his true age for the purposes of that Act) the references to that Act shall be construed as including references to this Act.

(4) Subject to the following subsection, any reference in this Act to any enactment is a reference to it as amended, and includes a reference to it as applied, by or under any other enactment including this Act.

(5) Any reference in this Act to an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by any Act of that Parliament, whether passed before or after this Act, and to any enactment of that Parliament for the time being in force which re-enacts the said enactment with or without modifications.