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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 412

Emergency action—contact with family

    (1)     If the director-general or a police officer has daily care responsibility for a child or young person under this division, the director-general or police officer must, as far as practicable, allow reasonable contact between the child or young person and their family members and significant people.

    (2)     However, the director-general or police officer is not required to allow contact if the contact would create a risk of harm to the child or young person.



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