Textual Amendments
F1S. 102 repealed by Children Act 1948 (c. 43), Sch. 4 Pt. I
Textual Amendments
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)
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.
(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
F4Words substituted by Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), Sch. 9 para. 11
Marginal Citations