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(1)If any person who has attained the age of sixteen years and [F1who has parental responsibilities in relation to a child or to a young person under that age or has charge or care of a child or such a young person,], wilfully F2... ill-treats, neglects, abandons, or exposes him, or causes or procures him to be F2... ill-treated, neglected, abandoned, or exposed, in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health (including injury to or loss of sight, or hearing, or limb, or organ of the body, and any mental derangement), that person shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable—
(a)on conviction on indictment, to a fine . . . F3, or alternatively, or in default of payment of such a fine, or in addition thereto, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding [F4ten]years;
(b)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding [F5£400], or alternatively, or in default of payment of such a fine, or in addition thereto, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2)For the purposes of this section—
(a)a parent or other person legally liable to maintain a child or young person [F6or the legal guardian of a child or young person]shall be deemed to have neglected him in a manner likely to cause injury to his health if he has failed to provide adequate food, clothing, medical aid or lodging for him, or if, having been unable otherwise to provide such food, clothing, medical aid or lodging, he has failed to take steps to procure it to be provided under [F7the enactments applicable in that behalf];
(b)where it is proved that the death of a child under three years of age was caused by suffocation (not being suffocation caused by disease or the presence of any foreign body in the throat or air passages of the child) while the child was in bed with some other person who has attained the age of sixteen years, that other person shall, if he was, when he went to bed, under the influence of drink, be deemed to have neglected the child in a manner likely to cause injury to his health.
(3)A person may be convicted of an offence under this section—
(a)notwithstanding that actual suffering or injury to health, or the likelihood of actual suffering or injury to health, was obviated by the action of another person;
(b)notwithstanding the death of the child or young person in question.
(4)Where any person who has attained the age of sixteen years is tried on indictment for the culpable homicide of a child or young person under the age of sixteen years [F8and he had parental responsibilities in relation to, or charge or care of, that child or young person], it shall be lawful for the jury, if they are satisfied that he is guilty of an offence under this section, to find him guilty of that offence.
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Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 12(1) substituted (1.11.1996 subject to arts. 4, 7 of the commencing S.I.) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4), Sch. 4 para. 7(2)(a) (with s. 103(1)); S.I. 1996/2203, art. 3(3), Sch.
F2Words in s. 12(1) repealed (27.10.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 51(5)(a), 89(2); S.S.I. 2003/475, art. 2, sch.
F3Words repealed by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Sch. 4 Pt. III
F4Word substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 45(1)(2)
F5Words substituted by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Sch. 3 para. 2
F6Words in s. 12(2)(a) inserted (1.11.1996 subject to arts. 4, 7 of the commencing S.I.) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4), Sch. 4 para. 7(2)(b) (with s. 103(1)); S.I. 1996/2203, art. 3(3), Sch.
F7Words Substuted by S.I. 1951/174 (1951 I, p. 1369), Sch.
F8Words in s. 12(4) substituted (1.11.1996 subject to arts. 4, 7 of the commencing S.I.) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4), Sch. 4 para. 7(2)(c) (with s. 103(1)); S.I. 1996/2203, art. 3(3), Sch.
F9S. 12(5)(6) repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170(2), Sch. 16
F10S. 12(7) repealed (27.10.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 51(5)(b), 89(2); S.S.I. 2003/475, art. 2, sch.
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