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Arrest of a Young Person for Breaking Conditions of Remand
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 inserted a provision into the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 whereby the police may arrest you in the following circumstances: where you are a person who has been remanded or committed to local authority care and conditions under this legislation have been imposed and the police have reasonable grounds for believing you have broken any of the conditions.
You must be taken as soon as practicable before a magistrate and in any event within 24 hours. The magistrate must decide whether a condition has been broken. If it has, then the magistrate must remand you. The Children and Young Persons Act 1969 applies as though you were charged with or convicted of the offence for which the original remand or committal had been made. If a condition has not been broken, then the remand or committal continues subject to the same conditions as previously.
You must be taken as soon as practicable before a magistrate and in any event within 24 hours. The magistrate must decide whether a condition has been broken. If it has, then the magistrate must remand you. The Children and Young Persons Act 1969 applies as though you were charged with or convicted of the offence for which the original remand or committal had been made. If a condition has not been broken, then the remand or committal continues subject to the same conditions as previously.
