CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002) Provided that no such licence shall, without the authority of the court which made the order placing the pupil in that institution or institute, be granted to a pupil before the expiration of the period of one year next following the date of commencement of his current period of retention. (2) The management of a certified institution or training institute may stipulate in a licence granted in terms of subsection (1) that the pupil shall be subject to the supervision of a probation officer or of a person working for the protection, welfare and reclamation of children and young persons. (3) The management which has granted a licence in terms of subsection (1) may at any time, by notice in writing addressed to the person in whose custody the pupil is or to the pupil himself if he is not in custody, revoke the licence and direct that the pupil shall return to the certified institution or training institute from which he was released. (4) Any interested person may, within one month from the date of a notice referred to in subsection (3), appeal to the Minister against the revocation of the licence and the Minister may, after reference to the management concerned and such further inquiry as he may think necessary, either confirm the revocation or restore the licence. (5) Where the Minister has restored a licence in terms of subsection (1), the management which granted the licence shall not revoke it again without the consent of the Minister. (6) Where the period for which a licence has been granted to a pupil expires before the expiration of the period of further supervision of the pupil, the management which granted the licence may require the pupil to return to the certified institution or training institute from which he was released or may extend the licence. (7) Upon the return to a certified institution or training institute of a pupil whose licence has been revoked or who has been required to return thereto in terms of subsection (6), such pupil shall, as soon as possible after his return, be again released on licence by the management and, until such further release, he may be retained in the certified institution or training institute. (8) Where a licence has been revoked or where a pupil has been required to return to a certified institution or training institute in terms of subsection (6), the management concerned shall forthwith report the reasons for the revocation or the requirement to return, as the case may be, to the Minister and, if the pupil is again released on licence shall forthwith report that fact to the Minister. (9) The Minister may at any time, by order in writing, cancel a licence granted to a pupil if he thinks it necessary in the interests of that pupil and may direct the pupil to return to the certified institution or training institution whose management granted the licence or transfer him in terms of section thirty-eight to any other certified institution or training institute. (10) Where a pupil has been directed by an order referred to in subsection (9) to enter a certified institution or training institute other than the one from which he was released on licence, he shall, as from the date of the order, cease to be a pupil of the institution or institute from which he was so released and shall become a pupil of the institution or institute which he has been directed to enter. 34 Licence may be varied (1) The management of a certified institution or training institute may, at any time with the consent of the person in whose custody a pupil has by licence granted by that management been permitted to live, vary the terms of the licence or substitute therein for the name of such person the name of any other suitable person (2) The management of a certified institution or training institute may at any time vary the conditions of residence of a pupil who has been released on licence granted by that management but who is not required to be in the custody of any person. 35 Reports on pupils (1) The management of a certified institution or training institute shall, on the completion by a pupil in that institution or institute of the first year of his period of retention, and on the completion of every succeeding year of his period of retention, report to the Director the reasons why the pupil has not been released on licence or recommended for discharge and if, in the opinion of the management, any further 22