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(1)This section applies where a constable believes that a person in police custody is under 18 years of age.
(2)At the time of sending intimation to a person under section 38(1), that person must be asked to attend at the police station or other place where the person in custody is being held.
(3)Subsection (2) does not apply if—
(a)a constable believes that the person in custody is 16 or 17 years of age, and
(b)the person in custody requests that the person to whom intimation is to be sent under section 38(1) is not asked to attend at the place where the person in custody is being held.
(4)Subsections (5) and (6) apply where—
(a)it is not practicable or possible to contact, within a reasonable time, the person to whom intimation is to be sent by virtue of section 38(3),
(b)the person to whom intimation is sent by virtue of section 38(3), if asked to attend at the place where the person in custody is being held, claims to be unable or unwilling to attend within a reasonable time, or
(c)a local authority, acting under section 41(9)(a), has advised against sending intimation to the person to whom intimation is to be sent by virtue of section 38(3).
(5)Section 38(3) ceases to have effect.
(6)Attempts to send intimation to an appropriate person under section 38(1) must continue to be made until—
(a)an appropriate person is contacted and agrees to attend, within a reasonable time, at the police station or other place where the person in custody is being held, or
(b)if a constable believes that the person in custody is 16 or 17 years of age, the person requests that (for the time being) no further attempt to send intimation is made.
(7)In subsection (6), “an appropriate person” means—
(a)if a constable believes that the person in custody is under 16 years of age, a person the constable considers appropriate having regard to the views of the person in custody,
(b)if a constable believes that the person in custody is 16 or 17 years of age, an adult who is named by the person in custody and to whom a constable is willing to send intimation without a delay by virtue of section 38(5)(a) or (b).
(8)The reference in subsection (4)(a) to its not being possible to contact a person within a reasonable time includes the case where, by virtue of section 38(5)(a) or (b), a constable delays sending intimation to the person.
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I1S. 39 in force at 25.1.2018 by S.S.I. 2017/345, art. 3, sch. (with art. 4)
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