{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963/section-29.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/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Provisions as to persons between the ages of 17 and 18.",
  "text": "(1) Where proceedings in respect of a young person are begun . . . for an offence and he attains the age of eighteen before the conclusion of the proceedings, the court may . . . deal with the case and make any order which it could have made if he had not attained that age.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(1) repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20),s. 108(6)(7), Sch. 15 (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Sch. 5 para. 49"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(1) substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 68(a), 101(1), Sch. 8 para.3, Sch. 12 para. 22(1); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 29(2) repealed by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Sch. 5 para. 49, Sch. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "power to exclude conferred by 1980 c. 43, s. 24ZB (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2022/35",
      "affecting_title": "Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/37/section/29",
    "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."
}