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Changes over time for: Section 5


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Point in time view as at 02/12/2019.
Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, Section 5.

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5 Restrictions on criminal proceedings for offences by young persons.E+W
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(8)It shall be the duty of a person who decides to lay an information in respect of an offence in a case where he has reason to believe that the alleged offender is a young person to give notice of the decision to the appropriate local authority unless he is himself that authority.
(9)In this section—
“the appropriate local authority”, in relation to a young person, means the local authority for the area in which it appears to the informant in question that the young person resides or, if the young person appears to the informant not to reside in the area of a local authority, the local authority in whose area it is alleged that the relevant offence or one of the relevant offences was committed; and
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and . . .; but nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing any council or other body from acting by an agent for the purposes of this section.
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