Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011

189Places of safety: restrictions on use of police stationsS

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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.

Commencement Information

I1S. 189 in force at 24.6.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/195, arts. 2, 3