Children (Amendment) Bill 2015

Public bill · Government · Presented

Would move all under-18s in custody or on remand from adult facilities into children’s detention schools, allow those schools to merge, and clarify arrangements when detainees turn 18. It would also introduce remission and appeals for disciplinary penalties, allow Garda questioning in certain cases, and make supplying a detained child with a mobile phone an offence.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Children Act 2001; to amend section 1 of the Prevention of Crime Act 1908, section 10 of the Criminal Justice Administration Act 1914 and section 13 of the Criminal Justice Act 1960 in order to remove persons under the age of 18 years from the scope of those provisions; to amend and extend section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1999; and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018