{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-31.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/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Separation of children and young persons from adults in police stations, courts, &c.",
  "text": "Arrangements shall be made for preventing a child or young person while detained in a police station, or while being conveyed to or from any criminal court, or while awaiting before or after attendance in any criminal court, from associating with an adult (not being a relative) who is charged with any offence other than an offence with which the child or young person is jointly charged, and for ensuring that a girl (being a child or young person) shall while so detained, being conveyed, or waiting, be under the care of a woman.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 31 applied (with modifications) by 1994 c. 33, s. 137D(2)(d) Sch. 7B Pt. 1 (as inserted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 1.3.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), ss. 116(1)(3), 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 16); S.I. 2018/227, art. 2(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "s. 31 renumbered as s. 31(2)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1991/53",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1991/53",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12/section/31",
    "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."
}