# Children and Young Persons Act 1963, Section 18: Jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts in certain cases involving children and young persons.

Extent: E+W

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—
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/37/section/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963/section-18
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