CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 409 Emergency action—daily care responsibility after action
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 409
Emergency action—daily care responsibility after action(1) If the director-general takes emergency action for a child or young person, the director-general has daily care responsibility for the child or young person.
(2) If a police officer takes emergency action for a child or young person, the police officer has daily care responsibility for the child or young person until the police officer tells the director-general about the emergency action under section 408.
Note The police officer must tell the director-general immediately in writing, or, if that is not practicable, immediately orally and as soon as practicable in writing (see s 408 (1) and (2)).
(3) After the police officer tells the director-general about the emergency action, the director-general has daily care responsibility for the child or young person.
(4) The director-general may authorise a police officer to exercise daily care responsibility for a child or young person on behalf of the director-general.
Note If 2 or more people have parental responsibility for a child or young person, either of them may discharge the responsibility. However, if the director-general is 1 of the people, no-one else may discharge the responsibility in a way that would be incompatible with the director-general's discharge of the responsibility (see s 18 and s 475 (2)).