PART 7Sentencing and release

CHAPTER 1Custodial sentences

Penalties for offences involving children or vulnerable adults

122Penalty for cruelty to children

(1)

In section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (cruelty to persons under 16), in subsection (1)(a) (penalty on conviction on indictment), for β€œten” substitute β€œ14”.

(2)

Subsection (1) applies only in relation to offences committed on or after the day on which this section comes into force.