- Draft legislation
This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 No. 2839
7. Every person who—
(a)is authorised by the managers of a juvenile justice centre to take charge of a person detained by them, or to apprehend such a person and bring him back to the centre; or
(b)is authorised by the Secretary of State or, being a probation officer, is authorised by a court, to take to a juvenile justice centre a person ordered to be detained there;
shall, for the purposes of this duty, have all the powers, protection and privileges of a constable.
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