practical steps to be taken by a child or other person to avoid child betrothal or marriage. (2) The practical steps to be taken, as required in subsection (1), may include(a) placing one’s passport in safe keeping; (b) reporting perpetrators of child marriage to a child marriage prohibition officer or an appropriate authority; or (c) informing a child marriage prohibition officer or an appropriate authority when a child is being taken out of any jurisdiction, on suspicion that the child is to be betrothed or married off. (3) In order to encourage persons to report a possible child betrothal or marriage, the Ministry shall(a) establish toll free child help lines, including the adoption and allocation of SADC harmonised toll free helpline numbers to facilitate cross-border protection of children; and (b) provide incentives, protection and confidentiality to informers reporting on an impending child betrothal or marriage. 42. Anti-child marriage fund or alternative financial resources (1) The Minister shall, with the approval of the Minister responsible for finance, establish an anti-child marriage fund or recommend to the Minister responsible for finance, in consultation with a portfolio Minister, that funds be directly allocated to the portfolio ministry for purposes of eradicating child marriage, preventing child marriage, assisting children already in marriages, assisting victims of child marriages and supporting the general implementation of the measures, public sensitsation, advocacy Page 71 of 78

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