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proceedings in which the order was made may be lodged (whether by giving notice of appeal or applying for a case to be stated for the opinion of the High Court) or, where such an appeal is duly lodged, until the appeal is finally decided or abandoned.

(3) In the application of this section to Scotland there shall be substituted in subsection (1) for the words from the beginning of the subsection to “any other justice” the words “Where proceedings have been instituted against a person in respect of an offence under the last foregoing section with respect to a work (hereafter in this subsection referred to as ‘the relevant work’), the sheriff”; and for the proviso to subsection (2) there shall be substituted the following proviso:—
 * “Provided that an order made under this subsection shall not take effect until the expiration of the time within which an appeal under section sixty-two of the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act, 1954, may be taken in respect of the proceedings in which the order was made or, where such an appeal is taken, until the appeal is finally disposed of or abandoned”.

4. The importation of—
 * (a) any work to which this Act applies; and
 * (b) any plate prepared for the purpose of printing copies of any such work and any photographic film prepared for that purpose;

is hereby prohibited.

5.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1955.

(2) In this Act the expressions “child” and “young person” have the meanings assigned to them respectively by section one hundred and seven of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, or, in Scotland, by section one hundred and ten of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1937, the expression “plate” (except where it occurs in the expression “photographic plate”) includes block, mould, matrix and stencil and the expression “photographic film” includes photographic plate.

(3) No provision of this Act, other than the provisions of the last foregoing section, shall extend to Northern Ireland.

(4) This Act shall come into operation at the expiration of one month beginning with the date of its passing.

(5) This Act shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and shall then expire, unless Parliament otherwise determines, and upon the expiration of this Act, subsection (2) of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply as if this Act had then been repealed by another Act. PRINTED BY JOHN ROUGHTON SIMPSON, C.B. 3