{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/23",
  "legislation_title": "Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "General supplementary provisions.",
  "text": "(1) Criminal Procedure Rules may make such provision as appears to the authority making them to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act (and nothing in this Act shall be taken to affect the generality of any enactment conferring power to make such rules).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) For the purposes of this Act the age of a person shall be taken to be that which it appears to the court to be after considering any available evidence.\n(4) Subsection (3) is subject to section 33(5) of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(1) substituted (1.9.2004) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 384(h); S.I. 2004/2066, art. 2(c)(xix) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 65(2) repealed (1.9.2004) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 387, Sch. 10; S.I. 2004/2066, art. 2(c)(d)(vii)(xix) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 65(4) inserted (6.4.2013) by The Trafficking People for Exploitation Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/554), reg. 1(b), Sch. para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 65 applied (with modifications) (31.10.2009) by The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Application to Service Courts) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2083), arts. 1, 11, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 65 applied (with modifications) (31.10.2009) by The Court Martial Appeal Court (Evidence) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2569), arts. 1, 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/23/section/65",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:51.659271+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."
}