CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002) young person or to the performance upon him of a surgical operation which is attended with serious danger to life: Provided that— (i) if the Director is satisfied, after due inquiry, that an operation is necessary to preserve the life of or to save the pupil, child or young person from a serious or lasting physical injury or disability and that a parent or guardian unreasonably refuses his consent to the performance of that operation or that a parent or guardian cannot be found within a reasonable time, the Director may himself authorize the performance of the operation upon the pupil, child or young person; (ii) if the principal of a certified institution or institution or training institute or the person in whose custody a pupil, child or young person has been placed in terms of this Act or any other enactment has good grounds for believing that the performance of any surgical operation is necessary to preserve the life of or to save the pupil, child or young person from a serious or lasting physical injury or disability, and that the need for such operation is so urgent that it should not be deferred for the purpose of consulting his parent or guardian or the Director, the principal or person concerned may himself authorize the performance of such operation. (5) The management of a certified institution or institution or training institute or the person in whose custody any pupil, child or young person has been placed in terms of this Act, including subsection (2), or any other enactment shall not consent to the performance of a surgical operation on any pupil, child or young person which is not attended with serious danger to life unless— (a) the operation is necessary to preserve the life of such pupil, child or young person or to save him from a serious or lasting physical injury or disability; and (b) except where it is not reasonably practicable to do so, notice of the proposed operation has been given to the parent or guardian of the pupil, child or young person and reasonable opportunity has been afforded to the parent or guardian to object to the performance of the operation and any objection raised has been considered. 48 Unlawful removal of pupil, child or young person from Zimbabwe 57 If any person without the consent in writing of the Director or except in terms of any order made in terms of this Act, removes from Zimbabwe a pupil, child or young person who is, in terms of any order made in terms of this Act, in the custody or under the supervision of any person, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.. PART VI CONTRIBUTION ORDERS 49 Making of contribution order (1) Subject to this Part, a children's court may make a contribution order against a respondent towards the maintenance of— (a) a child or young person who is the subject of an inquiry in terms of section nineteen; or (b) a child or young person in respect of whom an order has been made in terms of section twenty; or (c) any pupil. (2) The children's court may direct that the whole or portion of the payments due in terms of a contribution order shall be made by an employer of the respondent from earnings due to the respondent by that employer. (3) No contribution order and no direction in terms of subsection (2) shall be made unless— (a) notice of the proposal to make any such order or direction has been given to the respondent and, where applicable, the employer of the respondent concerned; and (b) the respondent and, where applicable, the employer of the respondent have been given an opportunity to appear before and to be heard by the court in relation to the proposal to make the order or the direction, as the case may be. 28