Part VIIS Miscellaneous and General

Supplementary Provisions as to Legal ProceedingsS

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Textual Amendments

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[F3103 Proof of age a defence.S

Where a person is charged with an offence under this Act in respect of a person apparently under a specified age, it shall be a defence to prove that the person was actually of or over that age.]

Textual Amendments

F3S. 103 added (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40. ss. 5, 7(2), Sch. 4 para. 3(1)(3)

104 Evidence of wages of defendant.S

In any proceedings under this Act a copy of an entry in the wages book of any employer of labour, or if no wages book be kept a written statement signed by the employer or by any responsible person in his employ, shall be evidence that the wages therein entered or stated as having been paid to any person, have in fact been so paid.

105 Summary jurisdiction.S

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, all orders of a court of summary jurisdiction under this Act shall be made, and all proceedings in relation to any such orders shall be taken, in manner [F4provided by the M1Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975].

(2)Any magistrate who, by virtue of a local Act had jurisdiction before the first day of April nineteen hundred and nine for any of the purposes of the M2Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act 1904, shall have jurisdiction for the like purposes of Part II of this Act.

Textual Amendments

Marginal Citations