CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002) (9) A medical officer or medical practitioner who is entitled in terms of subsection (1) or (5) to examine a child or young person may at any time during the day and at any reasonable hour during the night demand admittance into any premises or room in which he has reason to believe that child or young person to be and may call upon the parent or guardian of such child or young person to produce such child or young person to him at that person’s residence. (10) Where a Government medical officer or a medical officer of a local authority has reason to suspect that a child or young person is in need of dental treatment, he may examine or authorize a dentist to examine that child or young person in order to ascertain whether he is in need of dental treatment this section, other than subsections (1) and (4), shall apply, mutatis mutandis, as if any reference to a medical officer or medical practitioner included a reference to that dentist. (11)21 A parent or guardian who fails to comply with a direction given to him in terms of subsection (4) or who, having complied therewith or after the child or young person or his clothing has been cleansed in terms of subsection (7), permits or allows such child or young person again to become infested with vermin or his clothing again to become verminous or filthy, 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. (12)22 Any person who hinders or obstructs any other person in the performance of his duties in terms of this section 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. 10 Begging and public entertainment (1)23 Any parent or guardian of a child or young person who allows that child or young person or any person who causes any child or young person— (a) to beg; or (b) to accompany him or any other person while he begs; or (c) to induce or to endeavour to induce the giving of alms; or (d) to perform or be exhibited in any way for public entertainment in a manner likely to be detrimental to the child’s or young person’s health, morals, mind or body; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (2) Where a child or young person has acted in a manner described in subsection (1), the parent or guardian of the child or young person shall be deemed to have allowed such action unless he proves that he did not allow it and that he could not have prevented it. (3) A police officer or probation officer may at all reasonable times enter and inspect any premises in which a child or young person performs or is exhibited for any consideration at a public entertainment, and may attend any such entertainment free of charge. (4) Any person who obstructs or hinders any police officer or probation officer in the performance of his duties in terms of subsection (3) 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. 10A Restriction on employment of children and young persons24 (1) Except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, no— (a) parent or guardian of a child or young person of school-going age shall knowingly cause or permit the child or young person to absent himself from school in order to engage in employment for gain or reward; (b) person shall employ for gain or reward a child or young person of school-going age at a time when the child or young person might reasonably be expected to attend school. 13