{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juvenile-justice-centre-rules-northern-ireland-2008/article-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juvenile-justice-centre-rules-northern-ireland-2008/article-31.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/427",
  "legislation_title": "Juvenile Justice Centre Rules (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juvenile-justice-centre-rules-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Notification of incidents, illness or death",
  "text": "(1) If a child dies, becomes seriously ill, sustains a severe injury or is removed to hospital the director shall take all reasonable steps to inform the child’s parent immediately and also any person whom the child may reasonably have asked to be informed.\n(2) If a child dies the director shall immediately inform the coroner having jurisdiction, the police, the Secretary of State, and the person authorised by the Secretary of State under Article 55 of the Order.\n(3) The director shall at the same time notify DHSSPS and shall carry out an interim review into the circumstances of the death in order to take any steps necessary to remove potential risk to others.\n(4) A child shall be informed at the earliest appropriate time of the death or serious illness or serious injury of or to any immediate family member.\n(5) The director may grant permission for a child who has been detained in a centre under a juvenile justice centre order to attend the funeral of an immediate family member or to visit an immediate family member who is seriously ill or seriously injured.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 31 in operation at 12.11.2008, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/427/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:22.373836+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}