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Children and Young Persons Act 1933
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Children and Young Persons Act 1933, Cross Heading: Special Provisions as to Prosecutions for Offences specified in First Schedule is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 12 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Part I Crossheading Special-provisions-as-to-prosecutions-for-offences-specified-in-first-schedule:
- s. 12D(1A)-(1F) inserted by 2017 anaw 2 s. 51
- s. 49(12)-(14) inserted by 1999 c. 23 Sch. 2 para. 3(9)
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Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- s. 12D(1A)-(1F) inserted by 2017 anaw 2 s. 51
- s. 49(12)-(14) inserted by 1999 c. 23 Sch. 2 para. 3(9)
Special Provisions as to Prosecutions for Offences specified in First ScheduleE+W
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Textual Amendments
F1S. 13(1)(2) repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), s. 119, Sch. 7 Pt. I
14 Mode of charging offences and limitation of time.E+W
(1)Where a person is charged with committing any of the offences mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act in respect of two or more children or young persons, the same information or summons may charge the offence in respect of all or any of them, but the person charged shall not, if he is summarily convicted, be liable to a separate penalty in respect of each child or young person except upon separate informations.
(2)The same information or summons F2 . . . may charge him with the offences of assault, ill-treatment, neglect, abandonment, or exposure, together or separately, and may charge him with committing all or any of those offences in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health, alternatively or together, but when those offences are charged together the person charged shall not, if he is summarily convicted, be liable to a separate penalty for each.
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
(4)When any offence mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act charged against any person is a continuous offence, it shall not be necessary to specify in the information, summons, or indictment, the date of the acts constituting the offence.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 14(2) repealed (E.W.) (14. 10. 1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch.15 ( with Sch. 14 para. 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2).
F3S. 14(3) repealed by Children and Young Persons Act 1963 (c. 37), s. 64, Sch. 5
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Textual Amendments
F4S. 15 repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 47, 95), s. 119, Sch. 7 Pt. V
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