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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 144 

Return to family of persons committed to care of Ministry of Home Affairs.

144.(1) A child or young person who runs away or is without lawful authority
taken away from a person to whose care he has been committed under this Act
may be apprehended without warrant and brought back to that person, if he is
willing to receive him, and, if he is not willing to receive him, may be
brought

(a)if the order committing him to the care of that person was made by a court
of summary jurisdiction, before a juvenile court acting for the same petty
sessions district as that court; or

(b)in any other case, before a juvenile court having jurisdiction in the place
where he was residing immediately before he ran away;

(2) A child or young person who runs away, or is without lawful authority
taken away, from any place at which accommodation has been provided for him
under this Act, whether by boarding out or otherwise, by [the Ministry of Home
Affairs] acting in the capacity of a fit person to whose care he has been
committed under this Act may be apprehended without warrant and brought back
to that place or to such other place or person as [the Ministry] direct.

(3) Any person who

(a)knowingly assists or induces a child or young person to run away from a
person to whose care he has been committed as aforesaid or from a place at
which accommodation has been provided for him as aforesaid; or

(b)without lawful authority takes away a child or young person from such a
person or such a place; or

(c)knowingly harbours or conceals a child or young person who has so run away
or has been so taken away, or prevents him from returning,

1964 c.21

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