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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 229 Contact with siblings and people with parental responsibility

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 229

Contact with siblings and people with parental responsibility

(1)     If emergency action has been taken in relation to a child or young person for whom a police officer or the chief executive has parental responsibility, the officer or chief executive must allow reasonable contact between the child or young person and his or her siblings or a person with parental responsibility for the child or young person.

(2)     However the chief executive is not required to allow contact under this section if it would not be in the best interests of the child or young person to do so.