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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 53

Notices of charges against and applications relating to children and young persons.

53.(1) Where a child or young person is to be brought

(a)before a court in respect of an offence alleged to have been committed by
him; or

(b)before a juvenile court as being in need of care, protection or control;

(i)to a probation officer appointed for or assigned to the petty sessions
district in which the court will sit; and

(ii)except where the child or young person is brought before the court by [the
Ministry of Home Affairs,] to [the Ministry] ....

(2) [The Ministry of Home Affairs] who have received a notification under
subsection (1), and [the Ministry] ... who themselves charge any child or
young person with any offence, or bring any child or young person before a
juvenile court as being in need of care, protection or control shall, except
in cases which appear to them to be of a trivial nature, make such
investigations and render available to the court such information as to the
home surroundings, school record, physical and mental health and character of
the child or young person and, in proper cases, as to [the availability of
accommodation at] training schools, as appears to them to be likely to assist
the court; so however that [the Ministry] shall be under no obligation to make
investigations as to the home surroundings of children or young persons in any
petty sessions district in which arrangements have been made for such
investigations to be made by a probation officer.

(3) In this section "responsible person" means,

(a)in a case where the child or young person is charged with an offence, the
complainant, and

(b)in any other case, the person bringing the child or young person before the
court.

Exclusion of children and young persons from court during the trial of other
persons.

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