CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 50 Bail or detention of children and young persons arrested.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 50

Bail or detention of children and young persons arrested.

50.(1) Where a person apparently under the age of seventeen is arrested for an
offence with or without warrant and cannot forthwith be brought before a
magistates' court, the member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary for the time
being in charge of the constabulary station to which he is brought (in this
section referred to as "the officer") shall inquire into the case, and may
release him on a recognizance being entered into by him or his parent or
guardian (with or without sureties) for a reasonable amount to appear upon the
hearing of the charge at the time and place named in the recognizance, and
shall so release him unless

(a)the charge is one of homicide or other grave crime; or

(b)it is necessary in his interest to remove the person from association with
any reputed criminal or prostitute; or

(c)the officer has reason to believe that his release would defeat the ends of
justice;

(i)taken before the officer;

(ii)conditioned for the attendance at the hearing of the parent or guardian as
well as the person charged;

(iii)enforced in the same manner as a recognizance to appear before a court
may be enforced under section 138 of the Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern
Ireland) 1964.

(2) Where a person apparently under the age of seventeen having been arrested
is not so released as aforesaid, the officer shall cause him to be detained in
a remand home until he can be brought before a magistrates' court, unless
the officer certifies

(a)that it is impracticable to do so; or

(b)that he is of so unruly a character that he cannot safely be so detained;
or

(c)that by reason of his state of health or of his mental or bodily condition
it is inadvisable so to detain him;

(3) Where a person apparently under the age of seventeen has been arrested
without warrant for an offence and is neither brought forthwith before a
magistrates' court nor released, he shall be brought before a magistrates'
court within the period applicable under section 132 of the Magistrates'
Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 unless a member of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary of a rank not less than district inspector certifies to a
magistrates' court within that period that by reason of illness or accident
the said person cannot be brought before the court.

(4) Where in pursuance of this section a person is brought before a
magistrates' court or a certificate relating to any person is produced in a
magistrates' court, the court may remand him.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 50