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Children and Young Persons Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Provisions Applicable to Persons Being Detained in Juvenile Rehabilitation Centres, Places of Safety, Remand Homes and Places of Detention

94. Use of mechanical restraint

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Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2025. 2 amendments in all.

(1)

The person‑in‑charge of any prescribed Government home for children and young persons may use, or authorise any person who is assisting the person‑in‑charge of the home to use, mechanical restraint on a person detained in the home for the purposes (called in this section a detainee) mentioned in subsection (2).

(2)

The purposes mentioned in subsection (1) are —

(a)

to prevent a detainee from escaping from custody, including while transferring that detainee to a prescribed place or from a prescribed place to the prescribed Government home for children and young persons; and

(b)

to prevent a detainee from inflicting any bodily injury on himself or herself, or any other detainee or person within the prescribed Government home for children and young persons.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (1) read with subsection (2) —

(a)

the person‑in‑charge of a prescribed Government home for children and young persons and such person authorised by the person‑in‑charge of the home under subsection (1) may carry or have in their possession or under their control any mechanical restraint in any public place; and

(b)

the mechanical restraint must be removed from a detainee immediately once it is no longer necessary.

(4)

To avoid doubt, the person‑in‑charge of a prescribed Government home for children and young persons or such person authorised by the person‑in‑charge of the home under subsection (1) must not use a mechanical restraint on a detainee as punishment.

(5)

In this section, “mechanical restraint” means handcuffs, leg braces, flexi cuffs or any other similar means of restraint.[68A