{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1969/schedule-5/paragraph-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1969/schedule-5/paragraph-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/54",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1969",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/55",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 and section 5B of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, after subsection (3) of each section there shall be inserted the following subsection:—\n“(3A) In the case of a statement which indicates in pursuance of subsection (3)(a) of this section that the person making it has not attained the age of fourteen, subsection (2)(b) of this section shall have effect as if for the words from “made” onwards there were substituted the words “understands the importance of telling the truth in it”.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 55 substituted by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82) s. 154, Sch. 7 para. 87"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 55 substituted (4.7.1996, with effect as mentioned in S.I. 1997/386, art. 1(2)) by 1996 c. 25, s. 47, Sch. 1 Pt. I para.21, Pt. III para. 39 (with s. 78(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/54/schedule/5/paragraph/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:56.296738+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."
}