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gives power to a constable or park-keeper, to seize cigarettes or
cigarette papers in the possession of any person, apparently under
the age of sixteen years, who may be found smoking in any street
or public place and also to search any boy found so smoking.
Measures may also be taken to prevent cigarettes being obtained
from automatic machines where such machines are used by children
or young persons.
Part IV is concerned with Reformatory and Industrial Schools,
with their certification, inspection and management, and specifies
the children who are liable to be sent to such schools ; it also gives
power to subsequently apprentice or dispose of such children;
provides for the expenses of certified schools; and for the establishment
of Industrial Day Schools, &c.
Part V is concerned with Juvenile Offenders; the methods of
dealing with children and young persons charged with offences. It
provides that a child or young person shall be kept apart from
adults during detention at a police station ; and imposes certain
restrictions as to their punishment; also provides for places of
detention for children and young persons and for their custody
therein, and the maintenance of such places of detention.
Part VI consists of miscellaneous and general sections. It
provides a penalty on vagrants preventing children receiving
education, and on persons giving intoxicating liquor to children
under the age of five years, except in sickness or other urgent cause.
A publican renders himself liable to a fine if he allows a child to be
in the bar of licensed premises, except during the hours of closing.
This part also provides for the safety of children at entertainments
and for the cleansing of verminous children.
The expression "child" is defined as "a person under the age
of fourteen years," "young person" as "a person who is fourteen
years of age and upwards and under the age of sixteen years."
The Local Authority for the whole of the Metropolis is the
London County Council.