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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 170

Power to enforce attendance of child before court.

170.(1) Without prejudice to any other powers conferred by or under any
enactment (including an enactment contained in this Act), any justice of the
peace may require by summons any parent, guardian or employer of a child or
young person in relation to whom any proceedings under the provisions of
this Act are pending to produce the child or young person before a court of
summary jurisdiction.

(2) A justice of the peace, if satisfied by complaint on oath that an offence
under section 101(4), 105(8) or (9), 133(3), 140(6) or 144(3) has been
committed and that there is reasonable ground for believing that some person
named in the complaint can produce the person with respect to whom the offence
has been committed, may issue a summons requiring the person so named to
attend at a court of summary jurisdiction on such day as may be specified in
the summons and produce the second-mentioned person.

(3) If any person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a summons
under subsection (1) or (2), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and, where
the failure to comply with such a summons is repeated or continued after
conviction to a further fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day subsequent
to the day on which he is first convicted of an offence under this section
during which the failure is so repeated or continued.

S.171 rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18

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