The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1992

PART V MISCELLANEOUS

Register of proceedings in youth court

25.  Such part of the register kept in pursuance of rules made under the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1) as relates to proceedings in a youth court shall be kept in a separate book.

Issue of summons or warrant to enforce attendance of parent or guardian

26.  Where a child or young person is charged with an offence, or is for any other reason brought before a court, a summons or warrant may be issued by a court to enforce the attendance of a parent or guardian under section 34A of the Act of 1933(2), in the same manner as if an information were laid upon which a summons or warrant could be issued against a defendant under the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 and a summons to the child or young person may include a summons to the parent or guardian to enforce his attendance for the said purpose.

Payment of money by person subject to attendance centre order

27.—(1) Where a person under the age of eighteen is ordered, under section 17 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982(3), to attend at an attendance centre in default of payment of a sum of money, payment may thereafter be made—

(a) of the whole of the said sum, to the clerk of the court which made the order, or

(b) of the whole or, subject to paragraph (2), any part of the said sum, to the officer in charge of the attendance centre specified in the order.

(2) The officer mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) may not accept a payment of part of the said sum unless it is an amount required to secure a reduction of one complete hour, or some multiple thereof, in the period of attendance specified in the order.

(3) The clerk of the court shall, on receiving a payment under paragraph (1), forthwith notify the officer mentioned in paragraph (1)(b).

(4) The officer mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) shall pay any money received by him under that paragraph to the clerk of the court which made the order and shall note the receipt of the money in the register maintained at the attendance centre.

Form of warrant where young person is committed to remand centre or prison

28.  Where a young person is remanded or committed to a remand centre or prison under section 23(4) of the Act of 1969(4), the court shall record in the warrant of commitment that it has declared as mentioned in section 23(1) of that Act.

Forms

29.—(1) The forms in Schedule 2, or forms to the like effect, may be used with such variation as the circumstances may require, and may be so used in lieu of forms contained in the Schedule to the Magistrates' Courts (Forms) Rules 1981(5).

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the performance by supervisors of their functions under section 14 of the Act of 1969 of advising, assisting and befriending persons subject to supervision orders the following additional requirements to be complied with by the person subject to the order are prescribed for the purpose of inclusion (if the court considers it appropriate) in supervision orders made under section 7(7) of the Act of 1969, that is to say either or both of the requirements set out in paragraph (3).

(3) The requirements mentioned in paragraph (2) are—

(a) “That he/she shall inform the supervisor at once of any change of his/her residence or employment”;

(b) “That he/she shall keep in touch with the supervisor in accordance with such instructions as may from time to time be given by the supervisor and, in particular, that he/she shall, if the supervisor so requires, receive visits from the supervisor at his/her home”.

(1)

1980 c. 43.

(2)

Section 34A was inserted by the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), section 56.

(3)

1982 c. 48.

(4)

Section 23 was substituted by the Criminal Justice Act 1991, section 60(1), and for the time being has effect with the modifications set out in section 62 of that Act.

(5)

S.I. 1981/553, amended by S.I. 1982/246, 1983/524, 1984/1542, 1985/1945, 1986/1333, 1990/336.