Children and Young Persons Act 1963

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I Care and Control of Children and Young Persons

   1. Welfare powers of local authorities

      1. 1. Extension of power to promote welfare of children

   2. Children and young persons in need of care, protection or control

      1. 2. Children and young persons in need of care, protection or control

      2. 3. Children and young persons beyond control

      3. 4. Power to send case under s. 62 of principal Act to local juvenile court

   3. Supervision orders and powers of court to deal with persons under supervision or in care of local authority

      1. 5. Supervision orders

      2. 6. Extension of s. 66 of principal Act

      3. 7. Extension of powers of juvenile court to deal with persons in the care of local authorities

   4. Approved schools

      1. 8. Selection of approved school

      2. 9. Temporary committal of persons ordered to be sent to approved schools

      3. 10. Escape of persons subject to approved school orders

      4. 11. Designation of remand homes as classifying centres for persons ordered to be sent to approved schools

      5. 12. Contributions in respect of persons transferred from schools in Scotland or Northern Ireland

      6. 13. Contributions by persons detained in approved schools

      7. 14. Duty of parents to notify changes of address to approved school or fit person

      8. 15. Effect of approved school order on fit person or local authority

   5. Juvenile courts and proceedings in connection with children and young persons

      1. 16. Offences committed by children

      2. 17. Constitution and place of sitting of juvenile courts

      3. 18. Jurisdiction of magistrates' courts in certain cases involving children and young persons

      4. 19. Assessors for recorder in appeals and committals from juvenile courts

      5. 20. Constitution of London Sessions for purposes of committals from juvenile courts

      6. 21. Abolition of special time limit for indictable offences in Sch. 1 to principal Act

      7. 22. Children and young persons arrested and not released

      8. 23. Children and young persons detained in places of safety

      9. 24. Age limits for children sent to special reception centres

      10. 25. Attendance at court of parents of child or young person brought before court

      11. 26. Medical evidence by certificate

      12. 27. Evidence of children in committal proceedings for sexual offences

      13. 28. Form of oath for use in juvenile courts and by children and young persons in other courts

      14. 29. Provisions as to persons between the ages of 17 and 18

   6. Recovery of arrears of contributions

      1. 30. Recovery of arrears of contributions

   7. Increase of certain penalties

      1. 31. Increase of penalty for cruelty

      2. 32. Increase of penalty for sales of tobacco, etc., to persons under 16

   8. New appeals

      1. 33. New appeals

3. PART II Employment of Children and Young Persons

   1. General provisions as to employment

      1. 34. Hours of employment

      2. 35. Street trading

      3. 36. Increase of certain penalties

   2. Entertainment

      1. 37. Restriction on persons under 16 taking part in public performances, etc.

      2. 38. Restriction on licences for performances by children under 13

      3. 39. Supplementary provisions as to licences under section 37

      4. 40. Offences

      5. 41. Licences for training persons between 12 and 16 for performances of a dangerous nature

      6. 42. Licences for children and young persons performing abroad

      7. 43. Extended powers of entry

   3. Construction of Part II

      1. 44. Construction of Part II

4. PART III Miscellaneous and General

   1. Research and financial assistance

      1. 45. Research

      2. 46. Financial assistance under s. 20 of Children Act 1948

      3. 47. Power of local authority to guarantee apprenticeship deeds etc. of persons in their care

   2. Children in respect of whom parental rights may be or have been assumed by local authority

      1. 48. Extension of power of local authority to assume parental rights

      2. 49. Harbouring or concealing child required to return to local authority

      3. 50. Extension of power to appoint guardian

   3. Persons under supervision changing country of residence

      1. 51. Supervision of persons moving to Scotland

      2. 52. Supervision orders by Scottish courts in respect of persons residing in England

   4. Children and young persons escaping to other parts of British Islands

      1. 53. Arrest in one part of British Islands of children or young persons escaping in other part

   5. Amendment of Adoption Act 1958

      1. 54. Extension of scope of Adoption Rules

      2. 55. Emigration with consent of Secretary of State

   6. Miscellaneous

      1. 56. Prosecution of offences under Part I or Part II of principal Act

      2. 57. Newspaper and broadcast reports of proceedings involving children and young persons

      3. 58. Power of local authority to visit and assist persons formerly in their care

      4. 59. Adjustment between local authorities of expenses of maintaining persons in remand homes

   7. Supplementary provisions

      1. 60. Expenses

      2. 61. Effect of Act on general grants in England and Wales

      3. 62. Effect of Act on general grants in Scotland

      4. 63. Interpretation

      5. 64. Amendments, transitional provisions, and repeals

      6. 65. Citation, construction, commencement and extent

5. SCHEDULES

   1. SCHEDULE 1

      Supervision Orders

      1. Contents and duration of supervision orders

         1. 1. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, a supervision order...

         2. 2. A supervision order shall cease to have effect when the...

      2. Discharge and amendment

         1. 3. (1) A juvenile court may, upon the application of the...

         2. 4. (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, if a...

         3. 5. (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, a juvenile...

         4. 6. (1) Where an application for the discharge or amendment of...

      3. Requirements as to residence and treatment

         1. 7. A supervision order may not contain any requirement as to...

         2. 8. The period for which a person may be required by...

         3. 9. A supervision order requiring the person under supervision to submit...

         4. 10. Where a medical practitioner by whom or under whose direction...

      4. Selection of probation officers

         1. 11. The probation officer under whose supervision a person is to...

         2. 12. If the probation officer so selected dies or is unable...

         3. 13. The probation officer under whose supervision a girl is placed...

      5. Notification of orders

         1. 14. The court by which a supervision order is made or...

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      CONSTITUTION OF JUVENILE COURTS

      1. PART I Outside Metropolitan Area

         1. Juvenile court panels

            1. 1. The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall...

            2. 2. A justice shall not be qualified to sit as a...

            3. 3. Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this...

         2. Combined juvenile court panels

            1. 4. A magistrates' courts committee may make recommendations to the Secretary...

            2. 5. It shall be the duty of the magistrates' courts committee...

            3. 6. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule—

         3. Effect of order establishing combined panel

            1. 7. Where a combined juvenile court panel is formed for any...

         4. Restrictions on formation of combined panels

            1. 8. No order under this Schedule shall provide for the formation...

            2. 9. An order under this Schedule providing for the formation of...

         5. Consultations and notices

            1. 10. A magistrates' courts committee, before submitting recommendations for an order...

            2. 11. Where the Secretary of State proposes to make an order...

            3. 12. Where notice of recommendations or a copy of a proposed...

      2. PART II Metropolitan Area

         1. 13. The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall...

         2. 14. Juvenile courts shall be constituted for the whole of the...

         3. 15. Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule—

         4. 16. If at any time, by reason of illness or other...

         5. 17. Where it appears to the chairman that a juvenile court...

         6. 18. The Secretary of State, in nominating any persons under this...

         7. 19. The enactments relating to the provision of land and buildings...

      3. PART III General

         1. 20. An order of the Secretary of State under this Schedule...

         2. 21. Any such order may contain supplementary, incidental and consequential provisions....

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      Minor and Consequential Amendments

      1. The principal Act

         1. 1. In section 1(1), the words "or in default of payment...

         2. 2. In section 3, the words " or in default of...

         3. 3. In section 4(1), the words " or in default of...

         4. 4. For subsection (3) of section 18 there shall be substituted...

         5. 5. In section 23, for the words "public performance" there shall...

         6. 6. (1) In subsection (2) of section 24 for the words...

         7. 7. In the proviso to section 25(1), for the words "...

         8. 8. In section 26(1), the words " or in default of...

         9. 9. In section 28(1) for the words " an entertainment or...

         10. 10. In section 29(3), for the words " The said provisions...

         11. 11. In section 40(1), for the words from " to take...

         12. 12. In section 48(1), the words " or an application relating...

         13. 13. In section 53(4), for the words "shall return" there shall...

         14. 14. (1) In subsection (1) of section 56, for the words...

         15. 15. In section 58, for the words " for the detention...

         16. 16. After subsection (2A) of section 62 there shall be inserted...

         17. 17. (1) In section 67(1), after the words " committed, or...

         18. 18. In subsections (2) and (7) of section 70, for the...

         19. 19. In section 73, the words " under the foregoing provisions...

         20. 20. (1) In subsection (1) of section 84, after the words...

         21. 21. In section 85(1), for the words from " who, having...

         22. 22. In section 90(5), the following shall be substituted for paragraph...

         23. 23. In section 102(1)(a), after the words " probation officer or...

         24. 24. In section 107(1), the words " and the City of...

         25. 25. For sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 there...

         26. 26. For sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 there...

         27. 27. In paragraph 13 of Schedule 4, for the words from...

      2. The Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act 1933

         1. 28. In section 8(1), after the words "to which this Act...

      3. The principal Scottish Act

         1. 29. (1) In subsection (1) of section 28, for paragraph (a)...

         2. 30. In section 33, for the words " public performance "...

         3. 31. In section 36(1), for the words " an entertainment or...

         4. 32. In section 38(3), for the words " The said provisions...

         5. 33. After subsection (5) of section 87 there shall be inserted...

         6. 34. In paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 for the words from...

      4. The Education Act 1944

         1. 35. (1) After subsection (4) of section 40 there shall be...

         2. 36. After section 40 there shall be inserted the following section:—...

      5. The Family Allowances Act 1945

         1. 37. In section 11(1), paragraph (b) shall be omitted, and after...

      6. The Children Act 1948

         1. 38. For subsection (8) of section 3 there shall be substituted...

         2. 39. In section 10(1), the words " has not attained the...

         3. 40. (1) In subsection (1) of section 38, after the words...

         4. 41. In section 39(1), after paragraph (g) there shall be inserted...

         5. 42. In section 43(1) after the words " the Children and...

         6. 43. In section 44(1), after the words "the Children and Young...

      7. The Criminal Justice Act 1948

         1. 44. In section 75, for the words " young person ",...

      8. The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949

         1. 45. In section 72(1), for the words from " or under...

      9. The Justices of the Peace Act 1949

         1. 46. In section 14(1), for the words from " paragraph 1...

      10. The Criminal Justice Administration Act 1956

          1. 47. In section 18(4), after the words " appeals from a...

      11. The Mental Health Act 1959

          1. 48. In section 72(6)(a) after the words " said Act of...

          2. 49. In section 75(2), for the words from " including an...

      12. The Criminal Justice Act 1961

          1. 50. (1) In subsection (1) of section 29, after the words...

      13. The Criminal Justice Administration Act 1962

          1. 51. In section 4(7), after the words "appeal from a juvenile...

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      Transitional Provisions

      1. 1. Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of section...

      2. 2. Section 20 of this Act shall not apply in relation...

      3. 3. Any licence under section 22 of the principal Act or...

      4. 4. The power to revoke or vary a licence under section...

      5. 5. On the coming into operation of section 8 of this...

      6. 6. (1) An approved school order made before the day on...

      7. 7. Where an application under section 68(3) of the principal Act...

      8. 8. Any order under section 69(2) of the principal Act which...

      9. 9. A juvenile court panel formed for any two or more...

   5. SCHEDULE 5

      Enactments Repealed