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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991/schedule-8/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991/schedule-8/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/53",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 29 of the 1969 Act shall be renumbered as subsection (1) of that section and after that provision as so renumbered there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(2) In this section “young person” means a person who has attained the age of fourteen and is under the age of seventeen years.”\n(2) In section 70(1) of that Act, for the definition of “young person” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““young person” means a person who has attained the age of fourteen and is under the age of eighteen years;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 4 wholly in force at 1.10.1992 see s. 102(2)(3) and S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/53/schedule/8/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:55.708645+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."
}