Children and Young Persons Act, 1938 : 1 & s Geo. 6. Ch. 40.

  • Great Britain
Date:
1938]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Children and Young Persons Act, 1938 : 1 & s Geo. 6. Ch. 40. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | Persons Act, 1938. : respect to residence or by substituting the name of some other institution; and (c) any provisions with respect to residence which are contained in such an order shall be of no effect after the time when the person to whom the order relates attains the age of eighteen years. (2) The court by. which an order, under any of the following sections, as amended by this Act, that is to four of the principal Act and section forty-five of the Education Act, 1921, is made after the commencement specified period under the supervision of a probation officer or of some other person appointed for the purpose by the court, may at any time, upon application made by any person before the end of that period,— (a) substitute for the said period a period not exceeding three years from the beginning of the original period, (b) (subject to the limitations imposed by the preceding subsection) vary the order, or (c) if satisfied that the conduct of the child or young person has been such as to make it unnecessary that he any longer be under supervision, revoke the order ; and where any application under this subsection is duly made in relation to any person by the person under whose supervision he has been placed by such an order, the applicant may, for the purpose of the application, bring before the court the person who is the subject of the application, whether or not that person has attained the age of seventeen years. (3) The court by which, under any of the sections mentioned in the last preceding subsection, such an order as is mentioned in that subsection is made after the com- mencement of this Act may by the order provide that the powers which, by that subsection, are conferred on that court with respect to the variation or revocation of the order may be exercised by any juvenile court acting ~ for the petty sessional division or place in which the person to whom the order relates may for tae time being reside. &