CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 32 Warrant to search for or remove a child or young person.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 32

Warrant to search for or remove a child or young person.

32.(1) If it appears to a justice of the peace upon a complaint in writing on
oath made by any person who, in the opinion of the justice, is acting in the
interests of a child or young person, that there is reasonable cause to
suspect

(a)that the child or young person has been or is being assaulted, ill-treated,
or neglected in any place within the jurisdiction of the justice, in a manner
likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health; or

(b)that any of the offences mentioned in Schedule 1 has been, is being or is
about to be committed in respect of the child or young person;

(i)authorising any constable to search for the child or young person, and, if
it is found that he has been or is being assaulted, ill-treated, or neglected
in manner aforesaid, or that any such offence as aforesaid has been or is
being committed in respect of him, or that there is reasonable cause to
suspect that any such offence is about to be committed in respect of him, to
take him to a place of safety; or

(ii)authorising any constable to remove him with or without search to a
place of safety;

(2) A justice issuing a warrant under this section may by the same warrant
cause any person accused of any offence in respect of the child or
young person to be arrested and brought before a magistrates' court, and
proceedings to be taken against him according to law.

(3) Any constable authorised by warrant under this section to search for any
child or young person, or to remove any child or young person with or without
search, may enter (if need be by force) any house, building, or other place
specified in the warrant, and may remove him therefrom; and if any person
wilfully obstructs any such constable in the due exercise of any powers
conferred on him under this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(4) A constable executing a warrant issued under this section shall be
accompanied by the complainant, if the complainant so desires, unless the
justice by whom the warrant is issued otherwise directs, and may also, if the
justice by whom the warrant is issued so directs, be accompanied by a doctor.

(5) It shall not be necessary in any complaint or warrant under this section
to name the child or young person.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 32