CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002)
PART VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
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Consent to surgical or other treatment.
Evidence of husband or wife of accused person.
Sale of liquor, tobacco and drugs to children prohibited.
Seizure and confiscation of liquor, tobacco and drugs in possession of children.
Provision as to gambling, gaming or automatic machines.
Magistrate may order parent to produce his child before children's court.
Estimation of age.
Liability of step-parent to maintain his step-child.
Detention of juvenile.
[Repealed].
Financial support from public funds to certain institutions.
Notice of certain proceedings to be given to High Court.
Regulations.
[Repealed].
FIRST SCHEDULE: Specified Offences.
SECOND SCHEDULE: … [Repealed]
AN ACT to provide for the establishment of children's courts; to make provision for the protection, welfare and supervision of children and juveniles; to provide for the establishment, recognition and registration of certain institutions and institutes for the reception and custody of children
and juveniles and for the treatment of children and juveniles after their reception in such institutions and institutes; to require the contribution by certain persons towards the maintenance of
children and juveniles; to provide for the adoption of minors; and to provide for matters incidental
to or connected with the foregoing.
[Date of commencement: 27th October, 1972.]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Children’s Act [Chapter 5:06]1.
2 Interpretation
In this Act—
“adopted child” means a person adopted in terms of Part VII;
“adopter” means a person who has adopted a person in terms of Part VII;
“adoption order” means an order of adoption made in terms of Part VII;
“attendance centre” means a building or place which a child or young person has to attend on the
order of a children's court to receive guidance and to undergo treatment in order that he may be rehabilitated and disciplined;
“certified institution” means a training institute or an institution established and maintained in terms of
subsection (1) of section twenty-nine and, if the context so requires, includes the persons responsible for
managing such institution;2
“child” means a person under the age of sixteen years and includes an infant;
“child in need of care”3 means a child or young person—
(a) who is destitute or has been abandoned; or
(b) both of whose parents are dead or cannot be traced and who has no legal guardian; or
(c) whose legal guardian or parents do not exercise proper control and care over him; or
(d) whose legal guardian or parents are unfit to have or exercise control over him; or
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