CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 180

Interpretation.

180.(1) In this Act

"the Act of 1950" means the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland)
1950;

"broadcast" includes a sound or television broadcast and the transmission of
words to the subscribers to a diffusion service;

"child", except when used in Parts I, III, VI, VII and VIII and sections 164,
165 and 168 means a person under the age of fourteen, and

(a)when used in Part I has, subject to section 10(1), the meaning assigned to
it by section 19(2);

(b)when used in Part III has the meaning assigned to it by section 47(1); and

(c)when used in Parts VI, VII and VIII and sections 164, 165 and 168 means a
person under the age of eighteen;

"clerk" in relation to any authority other than a court means any member or
officer of the authority authorised by them to act in the matter in question;

"compulsory school age" has the same meaning as in the [Education and
Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1972], except that for the purposes of
sections 37(1)(a) and 87(1) it shall be construed without regard to the
provisions of [Article 36(2) of the said Order of 1972];

"credentials" in relation to a person acting in any capacity means some duly
authenticated document showing that he is authorised to act in that capacity;

"doctor" means a fully registered medical practitioner;

"guardian", in relation to a child or young person, includes any person who,
in the opinion of the court having cognisance of any case in relation to the
child or young person or in which the child or young person is concerned, has
for the time being the charge of or control over the child or young person;

"in need of care, protection or control" has the meaning assigned to it by
section 93;

"intoxicating liquor" means any fermented, distilled or spirituous liquor
which under the law for the time being in force is subject to an excise duty;

"legal guardian", in relation to a child or young person, means a person
appointed by deed or will or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of
any enactment, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, to be his guardian;

Definition rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18

"local education authority" [shall be construed in accordance with Article
3(1) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1972];

"managers", in relation to a training school ..., means the persons for the
time being having the management or control thereof;

"the Minister" means the Minister of Home Affairs;

"the Ministry" means the Ministry of Home Affairs;

"notice" means notice in writing;

"order for conditional discharge" has the same meaning as in the Probation Act
(Northern Ireland) 1950;

"parent", in relation to any child or young person, or other person

(a)who is illegitimate, includes his putative father;

(b)who has been adopted in pursuance of any enactment (including an enactment
in force in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands),
means the person or persons by whom he has been adopted, or last adopted, to
the exclusion of his natural parents;

"parental rights order" means an order made under section 104;

"place of safety" means any remand home, any home provided by [the Ministry of
Home Affairs] under Part VII, any constabulary station, any hospital or
surgery, or any other suitable place, the occupier of which is willing
temporarily to receive a child or young person;

"prescribed", except in relation to matters prescribed by bye-laws, means
prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry;

"probation order" has the same meaning as in the Probation Act (Northern
Ireland) 1950;

"public place" includes any public park, garden, sea beach or railway station,
and any ground to which the public for the time being have or are permitted to
have access, whether on payment or otherwise;

"relative", in relation to a child or young person, means a grandparent,
brother, sister, uncle or aunt, whether of the full blood, of the half blood
or by affinity, and includes

(a)where an order authorising an adoption has been made in respect of the
child or young person or any other person under any enactment (including an
enactment in force in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel
Islands), any person who would be a relative of the child or young person if
the adopted child or young person were the child of the adopter born in lawful
wedlock;

(b)where the child or young person is illegitimate, his putative father and
any person who would be a relative of his if he were the legitimate child of
his mother and putative father;

"remand centre" has the same meaning as in the Treatment of Offenders Act
(Northern Ireland) 1968;

"remand home" means a remand home registered under Part IX;

"school" has the same meaning as in the [Education and Libraries (Northern
Ireland) Order 1972];

"special reception centre" means accommodation for the temporary reception of
children provided under section 116(2) which [the Ministry of Home Affairs]
has given notice is for the time being available for the custody of children
of or under an age specified in the notice who are sent there for that purpose
from the area specified in the notice, and any reference to the area of a
special reception centre shall be construed as a reference to the area so
specified;

"street" includes any highway and any public bridge, road, lane, footway,
square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not;

"supervision order" has the meaning assigned to it by section 81(1);

"training school" means a school approved by the Ministry [or the Secretary of
State] under section 137;

"training school order" means an order made by a court sending a person to a
training school;

Definition rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18

"young offenders centre" has the same meaning as in the Treatment of Offenders
Act (Northern Ireland) 1968;

"young person" means a person who has attained the age of fourteen and is
under the age of seventeen.

(2) References in this Act to findings of guilt and findings that an offence
has been committed shall be construed as including references to pleas of
guilty and admissions that an offence has been committed.

(3) References in this Act to the age of any person are expressed in years.

(4) For the purposes of this Act a statement made regardless of whether it is
true or false shall be deemed to be made recklessly, whether or not the person
making it had reasons for believing that it might be false.
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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 180
