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NO. 27 OF 2014
Consequential and related amendments to Children and Young Persons Act
52. The Children and Young Persons Act (Cap. 38, 2001 Ed.) is amended—
- (a) by deleting the words “Juvenile Court” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “Youth Court”:
- Sections 8A(1), 9(1)(a), (2), (3) and (4)(a), 10(1), 30(1), (2), (3) and (4), 32(3), (3A) and (4) and section heading, 33(1), (2)(a) and (b), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) and section heading, 34(1) and (2), 39(1), (2) and (3), 40(1), (2), (4) and (5) and section heading, 41(1), 42(1), (2), (3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13) and (14) and section heading, 44(1), (2), (3), (5), (6) and (7) and section heading, 45(1), (2)(b) and (3), 46(1), (2) and (3) and section heading, 48, 48B(1), 49(1), (2), (3A), (3B), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) and (10) and section heading, 50(1), (1A), (2), (3) and (4) and section heading, 51(1), (2) and (3) and section heading, 52, 54(2A) and (3), 83, 84(1), (6)(a) and (7) and 85 and section heading;
- (b) by deleting the heading to Part III and substituting the following heading:
“YOUTH COURT”;
- (c) by deleting subsections (1) and (2) of section 32;
- (d) by deleting the words “The presiding Magistrate” in section 32(3) and substituting the words “A judge of a Youth Court”;
- (e) by deleting the words “Magistrate’s Court” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “District Court”:
- Sections 32(4) and 48;
- (f) by deleting the words “Juvenile Courts” in section 34(2) and substituting the words “Youth Courts”;
- (g) by deleting the words “order the offender to be brought before a District Court to be dealt with” in section 44(1)(k) and
