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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 139

Escapes from training schools, etc.

139.(1) The Ministry may classify training schools according to the age of the
persons for whom they are intended, the religious persuasion of such persons,
the character of the education adn training given therein, their geographical
position, or otherwise as it thinks best calculated to secure that a person
sent to a training school is sent to a school appropriate to his needs, or as
may be necessary for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The managers of a training school shall be bound to accept any person who
in pursuance of this Act is sent or transferred to their school or otherwise
to their care, unless

(a)the school is a school for persons of a particular religious persuasion not
being that of the person whom it is proposed to send or transfer; or

Para.(b) rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18

(c)the managers of the school satisfy the Ministry that there are already as
many persons detained in that school, or, as the case may be, otherwise under
their care, as is desirable.

(3) The provisions set out in Schedule 5 shall have effect in relation to the
administration of training schools and the treatment of persons sent thereto.


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