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Definition :

Young person. In the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12), this expression (s. 107) ' means a person who has attained the age of fourteen years and is under seventeen years.'

A young person within the (English) Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 42), is a person who is under the age of eighteen years (s. 5). See CHILD-REN.

Means a person under the age of twenty years. [Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 (93 of 1956), s. 2 (c)]

Means a person who has completed fourteen years of age but has not completed eighteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employ-ment) Act, 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2(q)]

Means a person who is either a child or an adolescent. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2(d)]

Means a person who is either a child or an adolescent. [Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951), s. 3(J)]