5Short title, interpretation, extent, commencement and duration
(1)This Act may be cited as the Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1955.
(2)In this Act the expressions " child " and " young person " have the meanings assigned to them respectively by section one hundred and seven of the [23 & 24 Geo. 5. c. 12.] Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, or, in Scotland, by section one hundred and ten of the [1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 37.] Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1937, the expression " plate " (except where it occurs in the expression " photographic plate") includes block, mould, matrix and stencil and the expression " photographic film " includes photographic plate.
(3)No provision of this Act, other than the provisions of the last foregoing section, shall extend to Northern Ireland.
(4)This Act shall come into operation at the expiration of one month beginning with the date of its passing.
(5)This Act shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and shall then expire, unless Parliament otherwise determines, and upon the expiration of this Act, subsection (2) of section thirty-eight of the [52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.] Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply as if this Act had then been repealed by another Act.