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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 101

Power to deal with children and young persons who become in need of medical treatment while under detention.

101.(1) Where a person is brought before a juvenile court or a justice of the
peace in pursuance of subsection (1) or (3) of section 100 or an application
is made in respect of any person to a juvenile court or justice of the peace
in pursuance of subsection (5) of that section, the court or justice may order
him to be released or the court, if not in a position to decide what order, if
any, should be made under section 95 or 97 in his case, or the justice, may
make an interim order for his detention or further detention in a
place of safety or for his committal to the care of a fit person, whether a
relative or not, who is willing to undertake the care of him.

(2) Unless extended under subsection (3), an interim order under subsection
(1) shall not remain in force beyond the date of expiry of a period of five
weeks.

(3) An interim order under subsection (1) may from time to time be varied or
extended by the court or justice of the peace who made it or by any other
juvenile court acting for the same petty sessions district as the
first-mentioned court or any other justice of the peace acting for the same
county [court division] as the first-mentioned justice, and in the case of a
child under the age of five may be so varied or extended in the absence of the
child; but a person shall not be detained by virtue of an interim order
(whether in the same place of safety or in different such places) for a period
exceeding ten weeks in all.

(4) Where a child or young person has been taken to a place of safety or has
taken refuge in a place of safety, as mentioned in section 100(1) or (3), or
is detained in a place of safety in pursuance of an interim order made under
this section, any person who

(a)knowingly assists or induces the child or young person to run away from the
place of safety; or

(b)without lawful authority takes away the child or young person from the
place of safety; or

(c)knowingly harbours or conceals the child or young person who has so run
away or been so taken away from the place of safety, or prevents him from
returning thereto;

Duty of Ministry of Home Affairs to provide for orphans, deserted children,
etc.

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