45 Duration of emergency protection orders and other supplemental provisions

45  Duration of emergency protection orders and other supplemental provisions

(1)     An emergency protection order shall have effect for such period, not exceeding eight days, as may be specified in the order.

(2)     Where—

(a)     the court making an emergency protection order would, but for this subsection, specify a period of eight days as the period for which the order is to have effect; but

(b)     the last of those eight days is a public holiday (that is to say, Christmas Day, Good Friday, a bank holiday or a Sunday),

the court may specify a period which ends at noon on the first later day which is not such a holiday.

(3)     Where an emergency protection order is made on an application under section 46(7), the period of eight days mentioned in subsection (1) shall begin with the first day on which the child was taken into police protection under section 46.

(4)     Any person who—

(a)     has parental responsibility for a child as the result of an emergency protection order; and

(b)     is entitled

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