{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-11.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": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "†Exposing children under seven to risk of burning.",
  "text": "If any person who has attained the age of sixteen years, having responsibility for any child under the age of twelve years, allows the child to be in any room containing an open fire grate or any heating appliance liable to cause injury to a person by contact therewith not sufficiently protected to guard against the risk of his being burnt or scalded without taking reasonable precautions against that risk, and by reason thereof the child is killed or suffers serious injury, he shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale:\nProvided that neither this section, not any proceedings taken thereunder, shall affect any liability of any such person to be proceeded against by indictment for any indictable offence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 11 substituted (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(5)(6), Sch. 13 para. 3(c) (with Sch. 14 para. 1(1)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word substituted by Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1952 (c. 50), s. 8(a), Sch. para. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1952 (c. 50), s. 8(b), Sch. para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words in s. 11 substituted by 1952 c. 50, s. 8 continue to have effect (despite the repeal of the amending provision) (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12/section/11",
    "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."
}