Children Act, 2001

Transfer.

152.—(1) The Minister may direct the transfer of a child from a children detention centre to another such centre to serve the whole or any part of the unexpired residue of his or her period of detention.

(2) Notwithstanding any provision in any enactment, no child shall be transferred from any place of custody to a place of detention provided under section 2 of the Act of 1970 or prison.

(3) In this section “place of custody” means a junior remand centre, a remand centre, a children detention school or a children detention centre.

(4) Subject to section 155 (4), a child may not be transferred from a children detention school to a children detention centre.

(5) A child may be transferred from a children detention centre to a place of detention provided under section 2 of the Act of 1970 or prison only on attaining 18 years of age.

(6) A child aged 16 or 17 years detained in a place of detention provided under section 2 of the Act of 1970 or prison may be transferred to a children detention centre.