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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 33

Mode of charging offences.

33.(1) Where a person is charged with committing any of the offences mentioned
in Schedule 1 in respect

(a)of two or more children;

(b)of a child together with one or more than one young person;

(c)of two or more young persons;

(d)of a young person together with one or more than one child; or

(e)of two or more children together with two or more young persons;

(2) The same complaint or summons may also charge any person as having the
custody, charge or care, alternatively or together, and may charge him with
the offences of assault, ill-treatment, neglect, abandonment or exposure,
together or separately, and may charge him with committing all or any of those
offences in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to
health, alternatively or together, but when those offences are charged
together the person charged shall not, if he is summarily convicted, be liable
to a separate penalty for each.

(3) When any offence mentioned in Schedule 1 charged against any person is a
continuous offence, it shall not be necessary to specify in the complaint,
summons, or indictment the dates of the acts constituting the offence, except
that, where the offence is one to which section 34(a) of the Magistrates'
Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 applies, the complaint and the summons
shall specify that the cause of complaint still continues or ceased to
continue within the six months immediately preceding the date of the
complaint.

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