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(1)This section applies where a person is authorised or required under this Act to keep or detain a child in a place of safety.
(2)A child may be kept or detained in a police station only if it is not reasonably practicable to keep or detain the child in a place of safety which is not a police station.
(3)Where a child is being kept or detained in a police station, the person must take steps to identify a place of safety which is not a police station and transfer the child to that place as soon as is reasonably practicable.
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