{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1963/37",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts in certain cases involving children and young persons.",
  "text": "Notwithstanding section 46(1) of the principal Act (which restricts the jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts which are not youth courts in cases where a child or young person is charged with an offence) a magistrates’ court which is not a youth court may hear an information against a child or young person if he is charged—\n(a) with aiding, abetting, causing, procuring, allowing or permitting an offence with which a person who has attained the age of eighteen is charged at the same time; or\n(b) with an offence arising out of circumstances which are the same as or connected with those giving rise to an offence with which a person who has attained the age of eighteen is charged at the same time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18 substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 100, Sch. 11 para. 40(2)(e); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(a)(b) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(1), Sch. 9 para. 5; S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Appendix A"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/37/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:00:23.676937+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."
}