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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 85 Detention of young people

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 85

Detention of young people

(1)     A young person who has been charged with an offence and is not admitted to bail must, as soon as practicable, be taken to a shelter, and detained there.

(2)     However, a young person may be taken to a remand centre and detained there if it is appropriate to do so because of—

        (a)     the actual or apprehended violent behaviour of the young person (whether in the shelter or elsewhere); or

        (b)     the seriousness of the offence with which the young person is charged; or

        (c)     an escape, or attempted escape, by the young person from lawful detention; or

        (d)     another good reason.

(3)     A young person who requires medical attention may be taken to a hospital and, if the person in charge of the hospital consents, be detained in the hospital.

(4)     When a young person detained in a hospital is discharged from hospital, the young person must—

        (a)     for a young person to whom subsection (2) applies—be taken to a remand centre and detained there; or

        (b)     in any other case—be taken to a shelter and detained there.

(5)     If—

        (a)     a young person is detained at a place; and

        (b)     it is necessary to take the young person

              (i)     to a court from the place; or

              (ii)     to the place from a court;

unless it is impracticable to avoid doing so, the young person may not be taken—

        (c)     with an adult under detention; or

        (d)     to a court and placed in a room in which an adult is placed.