In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, the following expressions have the following meanings:—

• “the M1Act of 1933” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1933;

• “the M2Act of 1963” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1963;

• “approved school order”, “guardian” and “place of safety” have the same meanings as in the Act of 1933;

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• “child”, except in Part II (including Schedule 3) and sections 27, 63, 64 and 65 of this Act, means a person under the age of fourteen, and in that Part (including that Schedule) and those sections means a person under the age of eighteen and a person who has attained the age of eighteen and is the subject of a care order;

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• “local authority” F3except in relation to proceedings under section 1 of this Act instituted by a local education authority, means the council of a non-metropolitan county or of a F4county borough, metropolitan district or London borough or the Common Council of the City of London;

• F5 “local authority accommodation” means accommodation provided by or on behalf of a local authority (within the meaning of the Children Act 1989)

• “petty sessions area” has the same meaning as in F6the M3Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 except that, in relation to a F7 youth courtconstituted for the metropolitan area within the meaning of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1963, it means such a division of that area as is mentioned in paragraph 14 of that Schedule;

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• “police officer” means a member of a police force;

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• “reside” means habitually reside, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly except in section F812B(1) and (2) of this Act;

• “supervision order”, “supervised person” and “supervisor” have the meanings assigned to them by section 11 of this Act;

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• F9“young person” means a person who has attained the age of fourteen and is under the age of eighteen years;

• F10“youth offending team” means a team established under section 39 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

and it is hereby declared that, in the expression “care or control”, “care” includes protection and guidance and “control” includes discipline.

In subsection (1A) of this section, the reference to a child or young person whose father and mother were not married to each other at the time of his birth shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the M4Family Law Reform Act 1987 and “residence order” has the meaning given by section 8(1) of the M5Children Act 1989.

Without prejudice to any power apart from this subsection to bring proceedings on behalf of another person, any power to make an application which is exercisable by a child or young person by virtue of section 15(1), F12. . . of this Act shall also be exercisable on his behalf by his parent or guardian; and in this subsection “guardian” includes any person who was a guardian of the child or young person in question at the time when any supervision order, F12. . . to which the application relates was originally made.

In section 99(1) of the Act of 1933 (under which the age which a court presumes or declares to be the age of a person brought before it is deemed to be his true age for the purposes of that Act) the references to that Act shall be construed as including references to this Act.

Subject to the following subsection, any reference in this Act to any enactment is a reference to it as amended, and includes a reference to it as applied, by or under any other enactment including this Act.

Any reference in this Act to an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by any Act of that Parliament, whether passed before or after this Act, and to any enactment of that Parliament for the time being in force which re-enacts the said enactment with or without modifications.