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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 102

102.(1) Where, with respect to a child or young person who is being detained
in a place of safety under an interim order having effect by virtue of
section 101, a court or justice of the peace is satisfied on any occasion
that, by reason of illness or accident, he is unable to appear personally
before the court or justice, any extension or variation of the interim order
which the court or justice has power to make on that occasion may be made in
the absence of the child or young person.

(2) If at any time while there is in force an order made by a court or justice
of the peace for the detention of a child or young person in a remand home or
in some other place of safety, the child or young person is found, by reason
of illness or accident, or for any other reason, to be in need of any medical
treatment or examination which cannot properly be given or made in the
remand home or other place of safety the person in charge of the remand home
or other place of safety may remove the child or young person therefrom to any
place of safety being a place in which the necessary treatment or examination
can be given or made; and the order shall, so long as it remains in force,

(a)apply to the child or young person as if, whilst being so removed to the
last-mentioned place of safety, whilst detained therein for the purpose of the
giving of the treatment or the making of the examination, and whilst being
taken back to the place from which he was so removed, he continued to be
detained in the remand home or other place of safety specified in the order,
and

(b)be deemed to authorise the child or young person to be taken to a court or
before a justice from any place to which he has lawfully been removed by
virtue of this subsection.

(3) Whenever, in pursuance of subsection (2), a child or young person is
removed from any remand home or other place of safety for his detention in
which such an order as is mentioned in that subsection has been made, being an
order in force at the time of the removal, the person by whom he is so removed
shall forthwith give written notice of the fact to the clerk of the court by
which, or the justice of the peace by whom, the order was made; but this
subsection shall not apply in relation to the removal of a child or
young person under this section who returns to the remand home or
place of safety on the day on which he is so removed.

(4) In sections 99 to 101 and this section "young person" includes a person of
or over the age of seventeen who is about to be brought before a juvenile
court under section 97.

Power of Ministry of Home Affairs to apply for parental rights order.

© 1968 Crown Copyright

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