Children and Young Persons Act 1969

• (1) Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the children's regional planning committee for a planning area (in this Schedule referred to as " the committee") shall consist of such number of persons selected and appointed in such manner and holding office on such terms as the relevant authorities may from time to time approve.

• (2) No person who is disqualified by virtue of section 59 of the Local Government Act 1933 from being a member of any local authority which is one of the relevant authorities for a planning area may be a member of the committee for that area.

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• (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, the relevant authorities for a planning area shall so exercise their powers under paragraph 1(1) of this Schedule as to secure that each authority nominates as a member of the committee for the area at least one person who is not so nominated by any other of the relevant authorities.

• (2) If the Secretary of State considers that owing to special circumstances the requirement imposed by sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph should be dispensed with in the case of a particular authority he may direct accordingly.

• (3) The members of the committee for a planning area who are nominated by the relevant authorities are in the following provisions of this Schedule referred to as "the nominated members ".

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• (1) Without prejudice to any power of co-option conferred on the committee for a planning area under paragraph 1(1) of this Schedule, but subject to paragraph 4 of this Schedule, the nominated members of the committee may co-opt other persons to serve as members of the committee, either generally or in relation only to such matters as may be specified by the nominated members.

• (2) Where any persons are co-opted to serve as members of the committee for a planning area in relation only to such matters as are specified by the nominated members then, subject to any directions given by the relevant authorities, the extent to which those persons shall be entitled to attend, speak and vote at meetings of the committee shall be such as may be determined by the nominated members.

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The relevant authorities for a planning area shall so exercise their powers under paragraph 1(1) of this Schedule, and the nominated members of the committee for a planning area shall so limit any exercise of their power under paragraph 3 of this Schedule, as to secure that at all times a majority of the members of the committee for the planning area are members of the relevant authorities.

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Subject to any directions given by the relevant authorities, the procedure and quorum of the committee for a planning area shall be such as may be determined by the nominated members.

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Section 93(1) of the Local Government Act 1933 (which relates to the expenses of joint committees of local authorities) shall apply to the committee for a planning area as it applies to such a joint committee as is mentioned in that section, but as if—

• (a) for references to the local authorities by whom the committee is appointed there were substituted references to the relevant authorities ; and

• (b) for paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of that section there were substituted the words " by the Secretary of State ";

and Part X of that Act (which relates to accounts and audit) shall apply to the accounts of the committee for a planning area as it applies to the accounts of such a joint committee as is mentioned in section 219(c) of that Act.

SCHEDULE 3

Provisions as to staff

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• (1) This paragraph applies where it appears to the Secretary of State that on the date specified in an order under section 46 of this Act (in the following provisions of this Schedule referred to as a “section 46 order”) all or any of the premises used for the purposes of the institution to which the order relates are to be used for the purposes—

• (a) of a community home, or

• (b) of a school of any of the following descriptions, namely, a county school, a voluntary school which is a controlled or aided school, or a special school;

and in this Schedule “the specified date”, in relation to an institution to which a section 46 order relates, means the date specified in that order.

• (2) Where this paragraph applies the Secretary of State may, by the section 46 order, make such provision as he considers appropriate with respect to—

• (a) the transfer of existing staff to the employment of the authority, voluntary organisation or other body of persons responsible for the employment of persons at the community home or school, as the case may be; and

• (b) the transfer to a local authority or voluntary organisation specified in the order of any liabilities (including contingent and future liabilities) with respect to the payment of superannuation and other benefits to or in respect of existing staff and retired staff.

• (3) In respect of any such superannuation or other benefits as are referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) of this paragraph, being benefits to which a person became entitled before the specified date and to which the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 does not apply, the section 46 order may contain such provisions for securing the payment of additional amounts (calculated by reference to increases under that Act or under any enactment repealed by it) as the Secretary of State considers appropriate having regard to any arrangements obtaining with respect to those benefits before the specified date.

• (4) Where this paragraph applies the section 46 order—

• (a) shall contain provisions for the protection of the interests of any existing staff whose employment is transferred as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)(a) of this paragraph;

• (b) may contain provisions for the protection of the interests of existing staff whose employment is not so transferred; and

• (c) may contain provisions applying, amending or repealing any provision made by or under any enactment and relating to the conditions of service of existing staff or the payment of superannuation and other benefits to or in respect of existing or retired staff;

and in a case falling within sub-paragraph (1)(b) of this paragraph any provisions made under paragraph (a) of this sub-paragraph shall have effect notwithstanding any provision made by or under any enactment and relating to the remuneration of teachers.

• (5) In this paragraph “existing staff” in relation to a section 46 order means persons who, immediately before the specified date, were employed for the purposes of the institution to which the order relates, and “retired staff” in relation to such an order means persons who, at some time before the specified date, were employed for those purposes but ceased to be so employed before the specified date.

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• (2) In accordance with sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, subsection (2) of the said section 60 shall be amended as follows:

(a) after the words “ under the regulations” there shall be inserted the words “ or, in a case to which paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 applies, by the Secretary of State” ; and (b) after the words “ order under Part I of the Police Act 1964” there shall be inserted the words “ or of an order under section 46 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969”.

• (3) Where a section 46 order is made in relation to an approved institution but paragraph 1 of this Schedule does not apply in relation to that institution, the section 46 order may make such provision as the Secretary of State considers appropriate with respect to the transfer to him of any such liabilities as are referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) of that paragraph and the payment by him of any such additional amount as is referred to in sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph.

Use of premises as homes for children in care

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• (1) If on the day specified for the purposes of section 7(5) of this Act premises are used for the purposes of an approved school, then during the period (in this Schedule referred to, in relation to an approved school, as “the interim period”) beginning immediately after that day and ending on the day on which the school ceases to be an approved school (whether by virtue of a section 46 order or otherwise) those premises may be used for the accommodation and maintenance of children in the care of local authorities.

• (2) If during the interim period the premises of an approved school are used for the accommodation and maintenance of children in the care of a local authority then, during that period,

• (a) any reference in section 21(1) or section 31 of this Act to a community home includes a reference to those premises; and

• (b) for the reference in section 18(1)(c) of the Criminal Justice Act 1961 (directions of Secretary of State as to management of approved schools) to persons under the care of the managers there shall be substituted a reference to the children in the care of local authorities who are accommodated and maintained in those premises.

• (3) At the request of the managers of an approved school the Secretary of State may, at any time during the interim period, give a direction—

• (a) that so much as may be specified in the direction of any rules made under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4 to the Act of 1933 (approved school rules) and of any rules made by the managers and approved by him under paragraph 1(2) of that Schedule shall no longer apply in relation to that school; and

• (b) that, in place of those rules, so much as may be specified in the direction of any regulations made under section 43 of this Act shall apply, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be so specified, in relation to the approved school as if it were a community home.

• (4) If the effect of the application, by a direction under sub-paragraph (3) above, of any provision of regulations made under section 43 of this Act in relation to an approved school would be to impose any duty or confer any power on a local authority in relation to that school, the Secretary of State shall not give a direction applying that provision except with the consent of the local authority concerned.

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• (1) If on the day specified for the purposes of section 7(5) of this Act a remand home was designated under section 11 of the Act of 1963 as a classifying centre then, during the period beginning immediately after that day and ending on the date specified in a section 46 order relating to that home, the home may be used for the accommodation and maintenance of children in the care of local authorities.

• (2) In this Schedule “classifying centre” means a remand home designated as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph and, in relation to a classifying centre, the period specified in that sub-paragraph is referred to as “the interim period”.

• (3) During the interim period—

• (a) the expenses of a local authority in providing and maintaining a classifying centre in relation to the whole or part of the expenses of which a direction has been given by the Secretary of State under section 11(3) of the Act of 1963 shall be treated for the purposes of section 104 of the Act of 1933 as if they were expenses incurred by the authority as managers of an approved school;

• (b) subsections (4) and (5) of section 106 of the Act of 1933 shall apply in relation to a classifying centre as they apply in relation to an approved school the managers of which are a local authority; and

• (c) any reference in section 21(1) or section 31 of this Act to a community home includes a reference to a classifying centre.

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• (1) Where a section 46 order is made in relation to an approved school or approved probation hostel or home and, in a regional plan approved by the Secretary of State, the whole or any part of the premises of the institution is designated as a controlled or assisted community home, the premises so designated may, after the specified date, be used for the purpose specified in the regional plan.

• (2) Without prejudice to any power to vary the provisions of a trust deed relating to a community home consisting of premises designated as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, the purpose referred to in that sub-paragraph shall be deemed to be included among the purposes for which the premises are held in accordance with a trust deed relating to that home.

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• (1) Where a section 46 order is made in relation to an approved institution (other than an institution provided by a local authority) and, in a regional plan approved by the Secretary of State, the whole or any part of the premises of the institution is designated as a community home to be provided by a local authority, then if the Secretary of State is satisfied that the premises so designated were to a substantial extent provided with the assistance of grants under section 104 of the Act of 1933 or section 20 of the Probation Service Act 1993or section 3, 5 or 9 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 or under sections 3, 6 or 13 of the Offender Management Act 2007 , he may, by an authorisation in writing under this paragraph, authorise the transfer of the premises so designated to that local authority.

• (2) The transfer of any premises in pursuance of an authorisation under this paragraph—

• (a) shall be on such terms, as to payment and other matters, as may be agreed between the local authority concerned and the trustees or other persons in whom the premises are vested and, if the authorisation so provides, as may be approved by the Secretary of State;

• (b) shall not take effect before the specified date; and

• (c) shall operate to vest the premises transferred in the local authority free from any charitable trust and from any other obligation requiring the use of the premises for the purposes of an approved institution.

• (3) Before giving an authorisation under this paragraph authorising the transfer of any premises belonging to a charity or otherwise held on charitable trusts, the Secretary of State shall consult the Charity Commission .

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The provisions of paragraphs 3 to 6 of this Schedule shall have effect notwithstanding anything in the law relating to charities or in any deed or other instrument regulating the purposes for which any premises may be used.

Financial provisions

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• (1) During the period which is the interim period in relation to an approved school or to a classifying centre falling within paragraph 4(3)(a) of this Schedule contributions shall be payable by local authorities to the managers of that school or, as the case may be, the local authority providing the classifying centre in respect of children in the care of the authorities who are accommodated and maintained in the school premises or the classifying centre in accordance with paragraph 3(1) or paragraph 4(1) of this Schedule.

• (2) The contributions payable by a local authority under sub-paragraph (1) above in respect of a child in their care shall be payable throughout the time during which the child is accommodated and maintained in the approved school or classifying centre concerned and shall be such as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

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• (1) Where a section 46 order is made in relation to an approved institution, other than an institution provided by a local authority, and in a regional plan approved by the Secretary of State the whole or any part of the premises of the approved institution is designated as a community home, then,—

• (a) on the coming into force of an instrument of management for a voluntary home which consists of or includes the premises so designated; or

• (b) on the transfer of the premises so designated to a local authority in pursuance of an authorisation under paragraph 6 of this Schedule,

any such obligation relating to that institution as is referred to in sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph shall cease.

• (2) Sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph applies to any obligation arising by virtue of a condition imposed under any of the following enactments, namely,—

• (a) section 104 of the Act of 1933 (expenses of managers of an approved school); . . .

• (b) section 20 of the Probation Service Act 1993 (expenditure in connection with approved probation hostels or homes).

• (c) section 3 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (functions of the Secretary of State);

• (d) section 5 of that Act (functions of local probation boards); ...

• (e) section 9 of that Act (approved premises),

• (f) section 6 of the Offender Management Act 2007 (power to make grants for probation purposes etc);

• (g) section 2(1) (responsibility for ensuring the provision of probation services) and section 3 (power to make arrangements for the provision of probation services) of the Offender Management Act 2007; or

• (h) section 13 of the Offender Management Act 2007 (approved premises).

• (3) In a case falling within sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, the section 46 order may contain provisions requiring the responsible authority or organisation or, as the case may be, the local authority to whom the premises are transferred, to pay to the Secretary of State such sum as he may determine in accordance with sub-paragraph (4) of this paragraph by way of repayment of a proportion of any grants made in relation to the former approved institution under either of the enactments referred to in sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, but where the community home concerned is an assisted community home, the section 46 order may provide that, with the consent of the Treasury, the Secretary of State may reduce the sum to be paid to him in accordance with the preceding provisions of this sub-paragraph to such sum as he thinks fit.

• (4) For the purpose of determining any such sum as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph, the Secretary of State shall assess—

• (a) the amount which in his opinion represents the proportion of the total amount of the grants paid in respect of expenditure in connection with the former approved institution which was attributable to expenditure of a capital nature; and

• (b) the amount which in his opinion represents the proportion of the contributions paid by local authorities under section 90 of the Act of 1933 or (as the case may be) the proportion of the sums paid by—

• (i) probation committees under rules made under the Probation Service Act 1993,

• (ii) the Secretary of State under section 3 or 9 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000, ...

• (iii) local probation boards under section 5 of that Act,

• (iv) the Secretary of State under sections 6 or 13 of the Offender Management Act 2007; and

• (v) providers of probation services under section 3 of the Offender Management Act 2007.

which (in either case) should be treated as having been paid on account of expenditure of a capital nature in connection with the former approved institution;

• (5) If the instrument of management for an assisted community home ceases to have effect as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 48 of this Act there shall be deducted from any sum which is payable to the Secretary of State under subsection (5) of that section any sums paid to him by the responsible organisation in respect of the assisted community home in pursuance of any such provisions of a section 46 order relating to the former approved institution as are referred to in sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph.

• (6) In this paragraph “the former approved institution”, in relation to a community home, means the approved institution the whole or part of the premises of which are comprised in that home.

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• (1) The provisions of this paragraph apply where in a regional plan approved by the Secretary of State, the whole or any part of the premises of an approved institution to which a section 46 order relates is designated as a controlled or assisted community home and an instrument of management for a community home which consists of or includes the premises so designated has come into force; and in this paragraph “the former approved institution”, in relation to such a community home, means the approved institution the whole or part of the premises of which are comprised in that home.

• (2) Where this paragraph applies and the community home concerned is a controlled community home, then—

• (a) the Secretary of State may, by the section 46 order, make such provision as he considers appropriate for the transfer to the responsible authority of any rights, liabilities and obligations which, immediately before the specified date, were rights, liabilities and obligations of the managers of, or the society or person carrying on, the former approved institution; and

• (b) except in so far as the section 46 order otherwise provides, any legal proceedings pending immediately before the specified date by or against those managers or that society or person shall be continued on and after that date, with the substitution of the responsible authority for those managers or that society or person as a party to the proceedings.

• (3) Where this paragraph applies and the community home concerned is an assisted community home but the responsible organisation does not consist of the persons who were the managers of or, as the case may be, is not the society or person who carried on, the former approved institution, paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph shall apply with the substitution for any reference to the responsible authority of a reference to the responsible organisation.

• (4) If any liabilities of a voluntary organisation which is the responsible organisation in relation to an assisted community home falling within sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph were incurred by the organisation before the specified date or were transferred to the organisation by the section 46 order (by virtue of sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph) and, in either case, had the former approved institution continued to be an approved institution, any expenditure incurred in meeting those liabilities would have been eligible for a grant out of moneys provided by Parliament—

• (a) under section 104(1)(a) of the Act of 1933 as the expenses of the managers of an approved school, or

• (b) under section 77(3)(b) of the Criminal Justice Act 1948 or under section 51(3)(c) of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973or under section 20 of the Probation Service Act 1993or under section 3, 5 or 9 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 or under sections 3, 6 or 13 of the Offender Management Act 2007 as expenditure falling within that section and relating to an approved probation hostel or home,

then any expenditure incurred after the specified date by the responsible organisation in meeting those liabilities shall be deemed for the purposes of section 65(1) of this Act to be expenditure incurred by the responsible organisation in connection with the assisted community home in question.

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• (1) Where a section 46 order is made in relation to an approved institution and no such provision as is referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 9 of this Schedule is made by a regional plan in relation to any part of the premises of the institution, the person or persons on whom falls any such obligation (in this paragraph referred to as a “repayment obligation”) relating to the institution as is referred to in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph may apply to the Secretary of State for an order under this paragraph.

• (2) If, on an application under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, it appears to the Secretary of State that on or within a reasonable time after the specified date the premises of the institution concerned or the proceeds of sale of the whole or any part of those premises are to be used for a purpose which is of benefit to children, he may with the consent of the Treasury make an order—

• (a) substituting for the conditions under which the repayment obligation arose such different conditions as he considers appropriate with respect to the repayment of any sum to which the repayment obligation relates; and

• (b) if the person or persons on whom the repayment obligation falls so request, imposing any liability to repay a sum in pursuance of the substituted conditions referred to in paragraph (a) above on such other person or persons as consent to accept the liability and as, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, will be able to discharge that liability.

Interpretation

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In this Schedule—

• “approved institution” has the same meaning as in section 46 of this Act;

• “the responsibility authority”, in relation to a controlled community home, has the same meaning as in section 41 of this Act;

• “the responsible organisation”, in relation to an assisted community home, has the same meaning as in section 42 of this Act; and

• “section 46 order” and, in relation to an institution to which such an order relates, “specified date” have the meanings assigned to them by paragraph 1(1) of this Schedule.

SCHEDULE 4

Part I — General

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For the purposes of subsection (4) of section 1 and subsection (7) of section 7 of this Act, any order under the Act of 1933 committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person other than a local authority, any supervision order under that Act and any order to enter into recognisances in pursuance of section 62(1)(c) of that Act shall be deemed to be such an earlier order as is mentioned in those subsections.

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• (1) The coming into force of section 7(1) or of an order under section 34(1)(d) of this Act shall not affect any sentence of borstal training passed before the date when the said section 7(1) or the order came into force or any committal for sentence before that date under section 37(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980; but a sentence of borstal training shall not be passed on any person (including a person to whom such a committal relates) if on the date of the relevant conviction he had not attained the minimum age which is for the time being specified in section 20(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1948.

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• (1) Every approved school order in force on the specified day shall cease to have effect at the end of that day; and after that day—

• (a) no person shall be detained by virtue of section 73 or section 82 of the Act of 1933 or an order under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1961 or be subject to supervision in pursuance of that Schedule; and

• (b) no person who has attained the age of nineteen shall be detained by virtue of a warrant under section 15 of the said Act of 1961.

• (2) A person who has not attained the age of nineteen on the specified day and who, but for sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, would after that day have been the subject of an approved school order or liable to be detained or subject to supervision as mentioned in that sub-paragraph shall be deemed from the end of that day—

• (a) to be the subject of a care order made by the court which made the approved school order in question on the same day as that order and committing him to the care of the local authority named in the approved school order in pursuance of section 70(2) of the Act of 1933 or, if no authority is so named, of a local authority nominated in relation to him by the Secretary of State; and

• (b) in the case where he would have been subject to supervision as aforesaid, to have been allowed by the said local authority to be under the charge and control of the person last nominated in relation to him in pursuance of paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1961;

but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as affecting the validity of a warrant under the said section 15 in relation to a person who has not attained the age of nineteen.

In relation to a person in respect of whom two or more approved school orders would have been in force after the specified day but for sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, references to such an order in paragraph (a) of this sub-paragraph are to the later or latest of the orders.

• (3) The Secretary of State may from time to time nominate another local authority in the place of a local authority nominated by him in pursuance of the preceding sub-paragraph or this sub-paragraph.

• (4) A person who is the subject of a care order by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph and who was unlawfully absent on the specified day from an approved school in which he was then required to be shall, until the local authority to whose care he is committed by the order direct otherwise, be deemed for the purposes of section 32 of this Act to be duly required by the authority to live after that day in the premises which on that day constituted the school.

• (5) A person who on the specified day is the subject of an approved school order or subject to supervision in pursuance of the said Schedule 2 or eligible for assistance under paragraph 7 of that Schedule and is not the subject of a care order from the end of that day by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph shall be deemed for the purposes of section 20 of the Children Act 1948 and section 58 of the Act of 1963 (which authorise local authorities to provide assistance for persons formerly in care) to have been in the care of a local authority under the Children Act 1948 on that day, notwithstanding that he may then have attained the age of eighteen; and in relation to such a person the reference in the said section 58 to the local authority shall be construed as a reference to any local authority.

• (6) If an order under section 88 of the Act of 1933 is in force at the end of the specified day in respect of payments under an affiliation order made for the maintenance of a person who is deemed by virtue of this paragraph to be subject to a care order after that day, the order under that section shall after that day be deemed to have been made, by virtue of the care order, under that section as modified by this Act.

• (7) A restriction direction which was given under section 49 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a person detained by virtue of an approved school order and which is in force at the end of the specified day shall cease to have effect at the end of that day.

• (8) References to an approved school order in this paragraph, except in sub-paragraph (2)(a), include references to an order of the competent authority under subsection (1) of section 83 of the Act of 1933 and such an order as is mentioned in subsection (3) of that section; and in relation to those orders this paragraph shall have effect, as if for sub-paragraph (2)(a) there were substituted the following—

(a) to be the subject of a care order made by a court in England on the date when the order for his detention in a school was made under the relevant law mentioned in section 83 of the Act of 1933 and committing him to the care of a local authority nominated in relation to him by the Secretary of State; and

• (9) In this paragraph “the specified day” means the day specified for the purposes of section 7(5) of this Act.

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• (1) An order under the Act of 1933 committing a child or young person to the care of a local authority as a fit person and in force on the date when section 7(6) of this Act comes into force shall be deemed on and after that date to be a care order committing him to the care of that authority.

• (2) Sub-paragraph (6) of the preceding paragraph shall have effect for the purposes of this paragraph as if for references to that paragraph and the specified day there were substituted respectively references to this paragraph and the day preceding the date mentioned in the preceding sub-paragraph.

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Except as provided by paragraph 1 of this Schedule and this paragraph, nothing in this Act affects—

• (a) an order under the Act of 1933 committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person other than a local authority and in force on the date when section 7(6) of this Act comes into force; or

• (b) the operation of any enactment in relation to such an order;

but where an application for the variation or revocation of the order is considered on or after that date by a youth court in pursuance of section 84(6) of the Act of 1933, the court shall have power (to the exclusion of its powers under the said section 84(6)) to refuse the application or to revoke the order and, where it revokes the order, to make a care order in respect of the child or young person in question.

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Notwithstanding anything in section 20(3) or 21(1) of this Act, an order which is a care order by virtue of paragraph 8 of this Schedule and a care order made by virtue of paragraph 9 of this Schedule shall, unless previously revoked, cease to have effect when the child or young person in question attains the age of eighteen.

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• (1) Where a supervision order under the Children and Young Persons Acts 1933 to 1963 is in force on the date when this paragraph comes into force or where an order under section 52 of the Act of 1963 (whether made before, on or after that date) falls to be treated by virtue of subsection (3) of that section as a supervision order under the Act of 1933, the order and, in relation to the order, any enactment amended or repealed by this Act shall, subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, have effect as if this Act had not been passed; and the order may be altered or revoked accordingly.

• (2) A youth court before which the person to whom such a supervision order relates is brought after the date aforesaid in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 66 of this Act of 1933 shall not have power to make such an order as is mentioned in that subsection in respect of him but shall instead have power to revoke the supervision order and make a care order in respect of him on being satisified that he is unlikely to receive the care or control he needs unless the court makes a care order; and section 6(1) of the Act of 1963 shall not apply in a case where the court exercises its power under this sub-paragraph.

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• (4) References to a supervision order in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of this paragraph include references to an order under the said section 52.

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If immediately before the coming into force of section 49 of this Act any person has, under section 3(3) of the Children Act 1948, the care and control of a child (within the meaning of that Act) with respect to whom a resolution under section 2 of that Act is in force, then after the coming into force of that section the child shall again be in the care of the local authority by whom the resolution was passed but shall be deemed to have been allowed by that authority, under section 13(2) of that Act (as substituted by the said section 49), to be under the charge and control of that person, on the same terms as were applicable under the said section 3(3).

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It shall be lawful for a person detained in any place in pursuance of section 27 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948 at the time when paragraph 24 of Schedule 5 to this Act comes into force to be detained there thereafter, until he is next delivered thence in due course of law, as if that paragraph had not come into force.

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Nothing in Schedule 6 to this Act affects the operation of section 15(3) of the Adoption Act 1958 in relation to a fit person order made under the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937.

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Nothing in any provision of Schedule 6 to this Act affects any order which, immediately before the coming into force of that provision, is in force by virtue of any enactment repealed by that provision.

Part II — Interim Provisions Pending Commencement of Provisions of Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968

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Where a court in England or Wales by which a child or young person is found guilty of an offence is satisfied that he resides or will reside in Scotland, the court shall have power, without prejudice to its other powers and notwithstanding anything in section 7(2) of this Act, to make a probation order in respect of him in accordance with sections 3 and 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948.

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In section 51(1) of the Act of 1963, for the words “principal Act” there shall be substituted the words “Children and Young Persons Act 1969 in proceedings under section 1 of that Act.”

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In section 51(2) of the Act of 1963, for the words from “proposes” to “this Act” there shall be substituted “, or a supervision order under the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 has been made in proceedings under section 1 of that Act, proposes to reside or is residing in Scotland” and for the words “specified in the supervision order” there shall be substituted the words “ for which the supervision order would have continued in force if it had been allowed to continue in force until it ceased to have effect by the effluxion of time.”

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Where a youth court in England or Wales is satisfied that a person who has not attained the age of eighteen and in respect of whom a supervision order made by virtue of section 7(7)(b) of this Act or section 7A(4) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949 is in force resides or will reside in Scotland, the court may discharge the order and exercise the like powers to make a probation order in accordance with sections 3 and 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948 in respect of him as if in the proceedings it had duly found him guilty of the offence in consequence of which the supervision order was made and section 7(2) of this Act had not been passed; but a probation order made by virtue of this paragraph shall not continue in force after the date on which the discharged supervision order would have ceased to have effect by the effluxion of time.

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• (1) Where it appears to the local authority to whose care a person is committed by a care order that his parent or guardian resides or will reside in Scotland and that it is appropriate to transfer him to the care of the managers of an approved school in Scotland, the authority shall make a report on the case to the Secretary of State; and thereupon the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, make an order transferring the person in question to the care of the managers of such a school.

• (2) The provisions of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Acts 1937 to 1963 shall apply to an order made under this paragraph as if it were an approved school order made by a youth court in Scotland on the date on which the care order in question was originally made; but notwithstanding anything in section 75 of the said Act of 1937 such an order shall cease to have effect on the date when the care order in question would have ceased to have effect by the effluxion of time and the contributions to be made under under section 94 of the said Act of 1937 in respect of the person to whom the order under this paragraph relates shall be made by the authority nominated for the purpose in the order under this paragraph, being the education authority within whose area it appears to the Secretary of State at the time that order is made that his parent or guardian resides or will reside.

• (3) When a person is received into the care of the managers of an approved school in pursuance of an order under this paragraph, the care order in question shall cease to have effect.

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If it appesrs to the Secretary of State that the parent or guardian of a person who has not attained the age of nineteen and is the subject of an approved school order in force under the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, or such other order as is mentioned in subsection (1) or subsection (3) of section 87 of that Act, resides or will reside in the area of a local authority in England or Wales, the Secretary of State may make an order committing that person to the care of that authority; and an order under this paragraph shall have effect as if it were a care order made on the date on which the approved school or other order was made, but as if sections 20(2) and 21(5) of this Act were omitted.

Schedule 5

The Police (Property) Act 1897

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The Act of 1933

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In section 34(2) of the Act of 1933 after the words “ be taken” there shall be inserted the words “ by the person who arrested him”.

4

In section 46 of the Act of 1933, after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(1A) If a notification that the acused desires to plead guilty without appearing before the court is received by the clerk of a court in pursuance of section 1 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1957 and the court has no reason to believe that the accused is a child or young person, then, if he is a child or young person he shall be deemed to have attained the age of seventeen for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section in its application to the proceedings in question.

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Section 63 of the Act of 1933 shall cease to have effect.

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• (1) In subsection (1) of section 87 of the Act of 1933, for the words from " an order has " to " same time, and " there shall be substituted the words " a care order which is not an interim order has been made in respect of a child or young person then, subject to section 62 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 ".

• (2) For subsection (2) of that section, there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

(2) A contribution order in respect of a child or young person may be made on the application of the local authority entitled to receive contributions in respect of him.

• (3) In subsection (3) of that section for the words from "in the case ", in the first place where they occur, onwards there shall be substituted the words " as long as the child or young person to whom it relates is in the care of the local authority concerned ".

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• (1) In subsection (1) of section 88 of the Act of 1933 for the words from " ordered " to " approved school" there shall be substituted the words " the subject of a care order (other than an interim order) " ; for the words " that court" there shall be substituted the words " the court which makes the order " ; for the words " the person who is " there shall be substituted the words " the local authority who are ", and for the words " the persons by whom, and in the circumstances in which " there shall be substituted the words " the local authorities by whom ".

• (2) In subsection (2)(c) of that section, for the words " person who was" there shall be substituted the words " local authority who were ".

• (3) In subsection (4) of that section, for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the words " after the child or young person to whom that order relates has ceased to be the subject of the care order by virtue of which the order under this " section was made or, where this section applies by virtue of section 23 of the Children Act 1948, after he has ceased to be in the care of a local authority under section 1 of that Act or, in either case, if he is allowed by the local authority to be under the charge and control of a parent, guardian, relative or friend, although remaining in the care of the local authority ".

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• (2) In the said section 107(1), in the definition of “ place of safety”, for the words “ any home provided by a local authority under Part II of the Children Act 1948 any remand home or” there shall be substituted the words “ a community home provided by a local authority or a controlled community home, any”.

• (3) Section 107(2) of the Act of 1933 shall cease to have effect.

The Education Act 1944

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The Children Act 1948

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In section 20(1) of the said Act of 1948, for the words "any such person as is mentioned in subsection (1) of the last foregoing section" there shall be substituted the words " any person over compulsory school age but under the age of twenty one who is, or has at any time after ceasing to be of compulsory school age been, in the care of a local authority ".

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In section 23(1) of the said Act of 1948 for the words from " committed " in the second place where it occurs to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words " in the care of a local authority by virtue of such an order as is mentioned in subsection (1) of the said section 86 ".

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• (1) In section 26(1) of the said Act of 1948 for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(b) an illegitimate child is in the care of a local authority by virtue of such an order as is mentioned in section 86(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, or.

• (2) In subsections (3) and (4)(b) of the said section 26, for the words " person who is " there shall be substituted the words " local authority who are ", and in subsection (4) of that section for the words " (b) or (c) " there shall be substituted the words " or (b) ".

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20

• (1) In subsection (1) of section 51 of the said Act of 1948, for the words from " homes" to " this Act" there shall be substituted the words " community homes provided by them or in controlled community homes " and at the end of that subsection there shall be added the words " or sections 2(5), 16(3) or 28 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 and of children detained by them in pursuance of arrangements under section 29(3) of that Act ".

• (2) In subsection (3) of the said section 51, for the words from "home " to " this Act " there shall be substituted the words " community home provided by a local authority or a controlled community home ".

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• (1) In subsection (3) of section 54 of the said Act of 1948, after the word " area " in the first place where it occurs there shall be inserted the words " other than community homes " and after the word " any " in the last place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the word " such ".

• (2) In subsection (4) of that section, for the words from " as a fit person " to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words " by a care order within the meaning of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 or by a warrant under section 23(1) of that Act. "

• (3) In subsection (5) of that section, for the words from "ninety-four " to " 1933 " there shall be substituted the words " section 58 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 ".

22

In section 59(1) of the said Act of 1948, at the end of the definition of " child" there shall be added the words " and any person who has attained that age and is the subject of a care order within the meaning of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 ".

The Criminal Justice Act 1948

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For section 27 of the said Act of 1948 there shall be substituted the following section:—

(27) (1) Where a court remands a person charged with or convicted of an offence or commits him for trial or sentence and he is not less than seventeen but under twenty-one years old and is not released on bail, then, if the court has been notified by the Secretary of State that a remand centre is available for the reception from the court of persons of his class or description, it shall commit him to a remand centre and, if it has not been so notified, it shall commit him to a prison. (2) Where a person is committed to a remand centre in pursuance of this section, the centre shall be specified in the warrant and he shall be detained there for the period for which he is remanded or until he is delivered thence in due course of law. (3) In this section “court” includes a justice; and nothing in this section affects the provisions of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (which provides for remands to the custody of a constable).

The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949

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26

After section 7 of the said Act of 1949 there shall be inserted the following section:—

(7A) (1) Where the court by which a probation order is made under section 2 of this Act or subsection (6) of this section is satisfied that the person to whom the order relates is under the age of seventeen and resides or will reside in England, subsection (2) of the said section 2 shall not apply to the order but the order shall name the petty sessions area in which that person resides or will reside and the court shall send notification of the order to the clerk to the justices for that area. (2) Where a probation order has been made under section 2 of this Act or subsection (6) of this section and the court which made the order or the appropriate court is satisfied that the person to whom the order relates is under the age of seventeen and proposes to reside or is residing in England, the power of that court to amend the order under Schedule 2 to this Act shall include power, without summoning him and without his consent, to insert in the order the name of the petty sessions area aforesaid; and where the court exercises the power conferred on it by virtue of this subsection it shall send notification of the order to the clerk aforesaid. (3) A court which sends a notification to a clerk in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this section shall send to him with it three copies of the probation order in question and such other documents and information relating to the case as it considers likely to be of assistance to the juvenile court mentioned in the following subsection. (4) It shall be the duty of the clerk to whom a notification is sent in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this section to refer the notification to a juvenile court acting for the petty sessions area named in the order, and on such a reference the court— (a) may make a supervision order under the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 in respect of a person to whom the notification relates ; and (b) if it does not make such an order, shall dismiss the case. (5) A supervision order made by virtue of the foregoing subsection shall not include a requirement authorised by section 12 of the said Act of 1969 unless the supervised person is before the court when the supervision order is made, and in relation to a supervision order made by virtue of that subsection— (a) section 15 of that Act shall have effect as if in subsection (4) paragraph (b) and the words following it were omitted ; and (b) section 17(a) of that Act shall have effect as if the second reference to the supervision order were a reference to the probation order in consequence of which the supervision order is made ; and when a juvenile court disposes of a case referred to it in pursuance of the foreging subsection, the probation order in consequence of which the reference was made shall cease to have effect. (6) The court which, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 73 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, considers a case referred to it in consequence of a notification under paragraph (i) of that subsection (which relates to a case in which a person subject to a supervision order made by virtue of this section moves to Scotland)— (a) may, if it is of opinion that the person to whom the notification relates should continue to be under supervision, make a probation order in respect of him for a period specified in the order; and (b) if it does not make such an order, shall dismiss the case ; and when the court disposes of a case in pursuance of this subsection the supervision order aforesaid shall cease to have effect. (7) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 2 of this Act, a probation order made by virtue of the foregoing subsection which includes only requirements having the like effect as any requirement or provision of the supervision order to which the notification relates may be made without summoning the person to whom the notification relates and without his consent, and shall specify a period of supervision which shall expire not later than the date on which that supervision order would have ceased to have effect by the effluxion of time; and, except as aforesaid, Part I of this Act shall apply to that probation order. (8) In this section " petty sessions area " has the same meaning as in the said Act of 1969.

The Sexual Offences Act 1956

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In section 37(7) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956, for the words “section twenty or twenty-one of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (which relate” in paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words “section 6 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (which relates” and for the words “that Act” in paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words “ the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952”.

The Affiliation Proceedings Act 1957

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• (1) In section 5(2)(a) of the Affiliation Proceedings Act 1957, for the words from “fit person” to “school” there shall be substituted the words “local authority”.

• (2) In section 7(4) of that Act, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(a) subject to the next following subsection, so as to require payments thereunder to be made in respect of any period when the child is in the care of a local authority under section 1 of the or by virtue of a care order (other than an interim order) within the meaning of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 ;

• (3) In section 7(6) of that Act, for the words from “a person” onwards there shall be substituted the words “by virtue of such a care order as aforesaid”.

The Children Act 1958

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In section 9 of the said Act of 1958, after the words " foster child " there shall be inserted the words " for reward ".

31

In section 12(1) of the said Act of 1958, for the words " one month " there shall be substituted the words " two weeks ".

32

In section 17 of the said Act of 1958, after the words "that is to say " there shall be inserted the words " approved school " has the same meaning as in the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937; " and, in the definition of " place of safety ", for the word " home " in the first place where it occurs there shall be substituted the words " community home " and for the words " under Part II of the Children Act 1948, remand" there shall be substituted the words " a controlled community ".

The Adoption Act 1958

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• (1) In section 4(3) of the Adoption Act 1958, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(a) section 24 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (which relates to the powers and duties of local authorities with respect to persons committed to their care in pursuance of that Act).

34

In section 15(3) of the said Act of 1958, for the words “the last mentioned order” there shall be substituted the words “or to the care of a local authority by a care order (other than an interim order) in force under the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, the fit person order or care order as the case may be”.

35

In section 37(2) of the said Act of 1958, for the words “(4) or (5)” there shall be substituted the words “or (4)”.

36

In section 57(1) of the said Act of 1958, in the definition of “place of safety”, for the word “home” in the first place where it occurs there shall be substituted the words “community home” and for the words “under Part II of the Children Act 1948, remand” there shall be substituted the words “a controlled community”.

The Mental Health Act 1959

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In section 50 of the said Act of 1959, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted -the following paragraph:—

(a) section 24 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (which relates to the powers and duties of local authorities with respect to persons committed to their care in pursuance of that Act).

40

In section 60(6) of the said Act of 1959, after the word " offence" there shall be inserted the words " or make any such order as is mentioned in paragraphs (b) or (c) of section 7(7) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 in respect of the offender ".

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The Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960

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The Criminal Justice Act 1961.

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In section 29(3)(a) of the said Act of 1961, for the words “that Act” there shall be substituted the words “the Children and Young Persons Act 1933”.

The Act of 1963

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49

In section 29(1) of the Act of 1963, for the words “before a juvenile court under section 62 or section 65 of the principal Act” there shall be substituted the words “under section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 or for an offence” ; and section 29(2) of the Act of 1963 shall cease to have effect.

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51

In section 45(1) of the Act of 1963, after the words "the Children Act 1958 " there shall be inserted the words " the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 ".

52

In section 49(1) of the Act of 1963, for the words "section 3(3)", there shall be substituted the words " section 13(2) " and for the words " over the care " in both places there shall be substituted the word " charge ".

53

For subsection (3) of section 57 of the Act of 1963 there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

(3) The said sections 39 and 49 shall extend to Scotland and the said sections 46 and 54 shall extend to England and Wales, but— (a) references to a court in the said sections 39 and 49 shall not include a court in Scotland ; and (b) references to a court in the said sections 46 and 54 shall not include a court in England and Wales.

The Family Allowances Act 1965

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The Criminal Justice Act 1967

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In section 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 and section 5B of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, after subsection (3) of each section there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(3A) In the case of a statement which indicates in pursuance of subsection (3)(a) of this section that the person making it has not attained the age of fourteen, subsection (2)(b) of this section shall have effect as if for the words from “made” onwards there were substituted the words “understands the importance of telling the truth in it”.

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The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968

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• (1) In section 72 of the said Act of 1968, after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(1A) The juvenile court in England or Wales to which notification of a supervision requirement is sent under this section may make a supervision order in respect of the person to whom the notification relates but, notwithstanding anything in section 76(1) of this Act, shall not include in the order a requirement authorised by section 12 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 unless that person is before the court when the supervision order is made ; and in relation to a supervision order made by virtue of this subsection— (a) section 15 of that Act shall have effect as if subsection (2) were omitted ; and (b) section 17 of that Act shall have effect as if in paragraph (a) the reference to three years and the date on which the order was originally made were respectively references to one year and the date on which the said notification was sent and as if in paragraph (b) the words from “the order was” to “and” were omitted.

• (2) In subsection (2) of that section, after the word “court” there shall be inserted the words “in Northern Ireland”.

• (3) In subsection (4) of that section for the words from “includes” to “1963” there shall be substituted the words “, in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the said Act of 1969”.

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• (1) In section 73 of the said Act of 1968, in subsection (1), after the word “reporter”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the following words:—

(i) in the case of a supervision order made by virtue of section 7A(4) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949, to notify the appropriate court and to transmit to that court all documents and certified copies of documents relating to the case which the reporter has received by virtue of section 76 of this Act ; (ii) in any other case. and at the end of that subsection there shall be inserted the following paragraph:— In this subsection “appropriate court” means the sheriff having jurisdiction in the area in which the child proposes to reside or is residing or, where the original probation order was imposed by the High Court of Justiciary, that Court.

• (2) After subsection (1) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(1A) Where a court in England and Wales is satisfied that a child in respect of whom the court proposes to make a supervision order is residing or proposes to reside in Scotland, the court may make the order notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of section 18 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (which relates to residence of the supervised person in England or Wales) ; and where the court makes a supervision order by virtue of this subsection— (a) the areas to be named in the order in pursuance of subsection (2)(a) of the said section 18 shall be those in which the court is sitting ; (b) the order may require the supervised person to comply with directions of the supervisor with respect to his departure to Scotland, and any such requirement shall, for the purposes of sections 15 and 16 of that Act (which relate to the variation and discharge of supervision orders), be deemed to be included in the order in pursuance of section 12(2) of that Act ; and (c) the court shall send notification of the order as mentioned in paragraph (b) of the foregoing subsection and the provisions of that subsection relating to the duty of the reporter shall apply accordingly.

• (3) In subsection (2) of that section for the word “subsection” there shall be substituted the words “provisions of this section.”.

60

In section 74 of the said Act of 1968, after subsection (5) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(6) An order under this section committing a child to the care of a local authority shall have effect as if it were a care order under the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, but as if sections 20(2) and 21(5) of that Act and in section 20(3) of that Act paragraph (a) and the words “in any other case” in paragraph (b) were omitted.

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• (1) In section 75 of the said Act of 1968, in subsection (1) after the word “order” there shall be inserted the words “or an order under section 74(3) of this Act relating to a training school”.

• (2) In subsection (2) of that section, for the words from “under”, where it first occurs, to “1944” there shall be substituted the words “by a care order (other than an interim order) within the meaning of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 or an order under section 74(3) of this Act” and after the word “1947” there shall be inserted the words “or the said section 74(3)”.

• (3) In subsection (3) of that section, after the words “training school order” there shall be inserted the words “or order under the said section 74(3) relating to a training scool”.

• (4) In subsection (4) of that section after the word “order” there shall be inserted the words “under the said section 74(3) or”.

62

In section 76(4) of the said Act of 1968, after the word “order” there shall be inserted the words “or order under section 74(3) of this Act relating to a training school”.

63

In section 90(1) of the said Act of 1968, the words “or to prescribe any matter,” shall be omitted.

64

In section 94(1) of the said Act of 1968—

• (1) after the definition of “place of safety” there shall be inserted the words—

“prescribed” means—

• (a) in section 3, prescribed by regulations,

• (b) in section 44, prescribed by rules, and

• (c) in sections 62(2), 66(1) and (2), 94, paragraphs 2(2) and (3), 4(3) and (4) of Schedule 7, prescribed by order,

• (2) in the definition of “supervision order” after the word “1963” there shall be inserted the words “and includes a supervision order within the meaning of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969”.

65

In section 97(1) of the said Act of 1968—

• (1) after the words “that is to say—” there shall be inserted the words “section 44(1) (except head (b)) and (1A)”,

• (2) after the words “Part V” there shall be inserted the words “section 98(3)” and “Schedule 2, paragraphs 7 and 13”.

66

In section 98 of the said Act of 1968, after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(3) An order under this section may make such transitional provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions thereby brought into force, including such adaptations of those provisions or of any provision of this Act then in force as appear to the Secretary of State necessary or expedient for the purposes or in consequence of the operation of any provision of this Act before the coming into force of any other provision of this Act or of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.

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68

In Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1968, in paragraph 19, after the word "' children'" there shall be inserted the words " , for the word ' offenders' there shall be substituted the word ' children', and for the word ' offender' in the three places where that word occurs there shall be substituted the word ' child ' ".

69

In Schedule 7 to the said Act of 1968, in paragraph 1(1)(a), for the words “section 63” there shall be substituted the words “section 62”.

70

In Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1968, in paragraph 7—

• (a) for sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:—

• (1) In section 87, for subsection (1), there shall be substituted the following subsection—

(1) Any person detained in a training school under the law in force in Northern Ireland may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, be transferred by order of the competent authhority in Northern Ireland to such place in Scotland as the Secretary of State may direct for the purposes of undergoing residential training, and shall be subject to the provisions of this Act and of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1963 as if the order sending him to the school in Northern Ireland were an order for committal for residential training made under section 58A of this Act made upon the same date, and as if the order were an authority for his detention for a period not exceeding the period for which he might be detained under the training school order made in respect of him ;

• (b) in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph at the end there shall be inserted the words “; and in section 87(2) and (4) the words “England or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted” ;

• (c) in sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph the words “to such” shall be omitted ;

• (d) after sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

(4) In section 87(5) the words “in relation to England, the Secretary of State, and” shall be omitted. (5) In section 87 subsection (6) shall be omitted.

71

In Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1968, in paragraph 9(2), for the word “for” there shall be substituted the word “of”.

72

In Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1968, in paragraph 10, at the end there shall be inserted the following words—

after the definition of “Street” there shall be inserted the following definition— “Training school order” has the same meaning as in the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.

73

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74

In Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1968, in paragraph 38, for the words “In section 15(4)” there shall be substituted the words—

(1) In section 15(3), for the words “the last mentioned order” there shall be substituted the words “or to the care of a local authority by a care order (other than an interrim order) in force under the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, the fit person order or care order as the case may be”. (2) In subsection (4).

75

In Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1968, in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 51, for the words from “inclufde”where it secondly occurs to the end of the sub-paragraph there shall be substituted the words “include ; and paragraph (e) shall be omitted.”

76

In Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1968, in paragraph 54, for the word “and” where the word first occurs there shall be substituted the word “or” and after the words “by virtue of” there shall be inserted the words “where those words secondly occur”.

77

In Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1968, after paragraph 59, there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

(59A) In section 32(2), after paragraph (g), there shall be inserted the following paragraph— (h) section 58A of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937.

78

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79

In Part I of Schedule 9 to the said Act of 1968, in the entry relating to the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act Act 1937, in the thrid column, after the words “Sections 68 to 86” there shall be inserted the following words:—

In section 87(2) and (4) the words “England or” wherever they occur, in subsection (5) the words “in relation to England, the Secretary of State, and” and subsection (6).

80

In Part I of Schedule 9 to the said Act of 1968, in the entry relating to the Children Act 1958, in the third column, for the words “Section 2(6) and (7)” there shall be substituted the words—

In section 2, in subsection (4) the words from “or by virtue of” to “of an approved school”, and subsections (6) and (7).

81

In Part I of Schedule 9 to the said Act of 1968, in the entry relating to section 15(3) of the Adoption Act 1958, in the third column, for the words “or the Children” to “1937” there shall be substituted the following words “fit person by” to “care of a” and the words “fit person order or” and “as the case may be”

82

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83

In Part II of Schedule 9 to the said Act of 1968, in the entry relating to the Family Allowances Act 1965, in the third column, for the words from “11,” to “(2),” there shall be substituted the word “11(2),”.

Schedule 6

SCHEDULE 7

Restrictions on criminal proceedings for offences by young persons.

7A

11A

12A

12AA

12B

12C

12D

14A

16A

16B

20A

21A

23A

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23AA

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Transfers between England or Wales and Northern Ireland.

Conflict of interest between parent and child or young person

32A

32B

32C

Transitional provisions, minor amendments and repeals etc.

1A

• (1) Where—

• (a) before the date when section 1 of this Act comes into force any child or young person (hereafter in this paragraph referred to as “the relevant infant”) has been brought before a youth court under section 62 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 or has been brought before such a court by virtue of a provision of section 40 or 40A of the Education Act 1944; and

• (b) immediately before that date that court has neither made any order which it had power to make in respect of the relevant infant under the said section 62 nor dismissed the case,

nothing in paragraph 13 of Schedule 5 to this Act nor in any provision of Schedule 6 thereto shall prevent the proceedings before that court in respect of the relevant infant being continued; but the court shall in those proceedings have power to make any order which it has power to make in proceedings under section 1 of this Act and shall not have power to make any other order, and subsections (3), (4) and (5) of the said section 1 and subsections (10) and (13) of section 2 of this Act shall have effect accordingly with any necessary modifications.

• (2) For the purposes of subsection (12) of the said section 2, any order made in respect of the relevant infant by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall be deemed to be made under section 1 of this Act.

• (3) Any record of a finding of the fact that the relevant infant is in need of care or protection made in pursuance of section 5 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1938 in any such proceedings as are referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall, notwithstanding the repeal of the said section 5 by this Act, be admissible as evidence of that fact in those proceedings.

Editorial notes

[^c8345911]: Act extended (S.) by Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 390(4)

[^c8346161]: Ss. 1-3 repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch.15 (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)

[^c8346591]: Ss. 1–3 repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch.15 (with Sch. 14 paras, 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)

[^c8346851]: Ss. 1–3 repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch.15, (Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)

[^c8345981]: Ss. 1–3 repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch.15 (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)

[^c8346861]: S. 4 repealed (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 72, 101(2), Sch 13; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch.2

[^c8346921]: S. 5(1)-(7) repealed (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 72, 101(2), Sch. 13; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch.2

[^c8346991]: Definitions in s. 5(9) repealed (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 72, 101(2), Sch. 13; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch.2

[^c8347011]: S. 6 repealed by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s. 154(2), Sch. 9

[^c8347841]: S. 7(1) repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), Sch. 16

[^c8347851]: S. 7(2) repealed by Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62, SIF 39:1), Sch. 6

[^c8347861]: S. 7(3)(4) repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), Sch. 16

[^c8347871]: 31.12.1970 specified for purposes of s. 7(5) by S.I. 1970/1499, art. 2

[^c8347881]: The text of s. 7(6) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

[^c8347891]: S. 7(7)-(9) repealed (25.8.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 165(4), 168(1), Sch. 12 Pt. I (with Sch. 11 paras. 1, 2)

[^c8347901]: S. 7(7A) (which was inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 23(b)) repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch. 15, (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)

[^c8347911]: S. 7(7B)(7C) (which were inserted (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s.108(4)(6), Sch. 12 para. 21 (with Sch. 14 para. 1(1); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)) repealed (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(2), Sch. 13; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2

[^c8347981]: S. 7A repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch.15, (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)

[^c8348051]: S. 8 repealed (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 72, 101(2), Sch. 13; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch.2

[^c8348071]: Words in s. 9(1) repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch.15, (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)

[^c8348141]: S. 10(1)(2) repealed (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(3), Sch.11; S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch.1 Appendix C

[^c8348161]: S. 10(3) repealed by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s. 154(2), Sch. 9

[^c8348231]: S. 11 repealed (25.8.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 165(4), 168(1), Sch. 12 Pt. I (with Sch. 11 paras. 1, 2)

[^c8348251]: S. 11A (which was inserted by Children Act 1975 (c. 72, SIF 49:9), Sch. 3 para. 68) repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6)(7), Sch.15, (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)