CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 100

1967 c.35

100.(1) A court or justice of the peace

(a)ordering the removal of a person to a place of safety under section 8(1) or
18; or

(b)issuing a warrant under section 32 authorising a constable to take a person
to a place of safety; or

(c)authorising any person under section 99 to take any other person to a
place of safety; or

(d)ordering the removal of a child or young person to a place of safety under
section 14 of the Adoption Act (Northern Ireland) 1967,

(2) The period to be specified under subsection (1) shall be a period not
exceeding five weeks.

(3) Where a child or young person has taken refuge in a place of safety or has
been taken there otherwise than under the authority of a court or justice of
the peace, he shall be brought before a juvenile court or a justice of the
peace within the period of eight days beginning with the day when he arrived
at the place of safety, unless he has been released or received into the care
of [the Ministry of Home Affairs].

(4) A person required to be brought before a juvenile court or a justice of
the peace under subsection (1) or (3) shall (if not otherwise brought before
the court or justice) be brought before the court or justice by [the Ministry
of Home Affairs] ..., and the person occupying or in charge of a
place of safety not provided by [the Ministry] shall as soon as practicable
notify [the Ministry] whenever any other person takes refuge or is removed or
taken there as mentioned in subsection (1) or (3).

(5) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section,
where the person to be brought before a court or justice of the peace is under
the age of five or cannot be brought before the court or justice by reason of
illness or accident, the duty to bring him before the court or justice may be
discharged by the making of an application for an order under section 101(1).

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 100