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15.—(1) Section 119 of the Act has effect subject to the modification specified in paragraph (2) in relation to children who are being looked after by a local authority and are aged between 12 and 16 and are detained under section 38(6) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(1) (detained children).
(2) The modification in paragraph (1) is that, for the words “unless it appears” to the end of subsection (1), there shall be substituted the following words—
“unless it appears that any accommodation other than that provided for the purpose of restricting liberty is inappropriate because —
(a)the child is likely to abscond from such other accommodation, or
(b)the child is likely to injure himself or herself or other people if he or she is kept in any such other accommodation.”
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