{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-37.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/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Power to clear court while child or young person is giving evidence in certain cases.",
  "text": "(1) Where, in any proceedings in relation to an offence against, or any conduct contrary to, decency or morality, a person who, in the opinion of the court, is a child or young person is called as a witness, the court may direct that all or any persons, not being members or officers of the court or parties to the case, their legal representatives, or persons otherwise directly concerned in the case, be excluded from the court during the taking of the evidence of that witness:\nProvided that nothing in this section shall authorise the exclusion of bonâ fide representatives of a newspaper or news agency.\n(2) The powers conferred on a court by this section shall be in addition and without prejudice to any other powers of the court to hear proceedings in camerâ.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(1) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 208, 211, Sch. 21 para. 16 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h) (with art. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/23",
      "affecting_title": "Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12/section/37",
    "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."
}