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38 Amendment of provisions relating to age limits on orders for custody etc. E+W
(1)Section 15(2)(a) of the Guardianship of Minors Act 1971 (which provides that a magistrates’ court shall not entertain an application relating to a minor over sixteen unless the minor is physically or mentally incapable of self-support) shall cease to have effect.
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)In section 3(2) of the Guardianship Act 1973 (which provides that a supervision order shall cease to have effect when a minor becomes sixteen) for the words “age of sixteen ” there shall be substituted the words “age of eighteen ”.
(4)In section 4 of the Guardianship Act 1973 (which relates to orders committing the care of a minor to a local authority) after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(2A)The court shall not make an order committing a minor to the care of a local authority under section 2(2)(b) above after he has attained the age of seventeen.”.
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