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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act 1933",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to persons under the age of eighteen years.\n[13th April 1933]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended (except ss. 15, 19) by Protection of Children Act 1978 (c. 37), s. 1(5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170(1), Sch. 15 para. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), S. 101(1), Sch. 12 para.23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to juvenile courts."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Power to modify conferred (5.2.1994) by 1993 c. 47, ss. 22(3), 33(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act (except ss. 53, 58, 79-81, Sch. 4): transfer of functions (W) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent by s. 109(2) (now repealed); Act wholly in force at 1.11.1933."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act: does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland save as therein otherwise expressly provided see s. 109(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:27.642197+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}