Children and Young Persons Act 1963 (c. 37)

Part I E+W+S Care and Control of Children and Young Persons

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. I amended (E.W.) by Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42), s. 2(1), Sch. 1

Juvenile courts and proceedings in connection with children and young persons E+W

18 Jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts in certain cases involving children and young persons. E+W

Notwithstanding section 46(1) of the principal Act (which restricts the jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts which are not [F1 youth courts] in cases where a child or young person is charged with an offence) a magistrates’ court which is not a [F1 youth court] may hear an information against a child or young person if he is charged—

(a) with aiding, abetting, causing, procuring, allowing or permitting an offence with which a person who has attained [F2 the age of eighteen] is charged at the same time; or

(b) with an offence arising out of circumstances which are the same as or connected with those giving rise to an offence with which a person who has attained [F2 the age of eighteen] is charged at the same time.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 18 substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 100, Sch. 11 para. 40(2)(e); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2

F2 Words in s. 18(a)(b) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(1), Sch. 9 para. 5; S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Appendix A