{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/section-47.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/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Procedure in youth courts.",
  "text": "(1) Youth courts shall sit as often as may be necessary for the purpose of exercising any jurisdiction conferred on them by or under this or any other Act.\n(2) . . . No person shall be present at any sitting of a youth court except—\n(a) members and officers of the court;\n(b) parties to the case before the court, their legal representatives, and witnesses and other persons directly concerned in that case;\n(c) bonâ fide representatives of newspapers or news agencies;\n(d) such other persons as the court may specially authorise to be present:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 47 substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 100, Sch. 11 para. 40(2)(a); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(2) repealed (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, ss. 47(7), 120(2), Sch. 10; S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(k)(3)(g)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(2)(b) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 208, 211, Sch. 21 para. 18 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 47(2) proviso repealed by Justices of Peace Act 1949 (c. 101), Sch. 7 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 47(3) repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (c. 101), Sch. 7, Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 47(2) restricted by Adoption Act 1958 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2 c. 5), s. 47; restricted by Adoption Act 1976 (c. 36), s. 37(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 47(2) modified (31.8.2009 for specified purposes, 1.4.2010 for specified purposes, 1.11.2010 for specified purposes) by Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c. 38), ss. 11(7), 66(2); S.I. 2009/1840, art. 3(c); S.I. 2010/469, arts. 3(c), 4, Sch.; S.I. 2010/2541, arts. 3(c), 4, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "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/47",
    "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."
}