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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 99

Persons detained in place of safety.

99. A constable, or any person authorised by any court or by any justice of
the peace, may take to a place of safety any child or young person in respect
of whom any of the offences mentioned in Schedule 1 has been or is believed to
have been committed, or any person who is about to be brought before a
juvenile court in accordance with section 94, 96 or 97, and subject to
section 100 a person so taken to a place of safety, and any child or
young person who has taken refuge in a place of safety, may be detained there
until he can be brought before a juvenile court.


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