Regulation 12 Duties where child subject to emergency protection measures

In regulations 13 to 16 below–

• “emergency protection measures” in relation to a child means–

  1. (a)

     further to the grant of an authorisation by a justice of the peace under subsection (1) or (2) of section 61 of the Act, the prevention of the removal of the child by any person from a place where he is then being accommodated or, as the case may be, the removal of the child to a place of safety and keeping him there until the expiry of the authorisation; and

  2. (b)

     the removal of a child to a place of safety by a constable under section 61(5) of the Act, and keeping him there;

• “specified person” means–

  1. (a)

     where an authorisation has been granted by a justice of the peace under subsection (1) or (2) of section 61 of the Act, the applicant for such authorisation; and

  2. (b)

     where a child has been removed to a place of safety by a constable under section 61(5) of the Act, a constable keeping him in such a place.