# Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, Section 189: Places of safety: restrictions on use of police stations


(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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/1/section/189 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-189
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