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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 61

Extension of power to take deposition of child or young person.

61.(1) Where a justice of the peace is satisfied by the evidence of a doctor
that the attendance before a court of any child or young person in respect of
whom any of the offences mentioned in Schedule 1 is alleged to have been
committed would involve serious danger to his life or health, the justice may
take in writing the deposition of the child or young person on oath, and shall
thereupon subscribe the deposition and add thereto a statement of his reason
for taking it and of the day when and place where it was taken, and of the
names of the persons, if any, present at the taking thereof.

(2) The justice taking any such deposition shall transmit it with his
statement

(a)if the deposition relates to an offence for which any accused person is
already committed for trial, to the proper officer of the court for trial at
which the accused person has been committed; and

(b)in any other case, to the clerk of the court before which proceedings are
pending in respect of the offence.

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