CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002)
(5) No person shall publish the name, address or school or any other information likely to reveal the
identity of any child or young person who is or has been concerned in any proceedings in a children's
court:
Provided that, if the officer who presides or presided at such proceedings considers that such publication would be just and equitable and in the public interest, he may by written order dispense with the
prohibition of this subsection and to such extent as may be specified in the order.
(6) At any sitting of a children's court no person shall be present unless—
(a) his presence is necessary in connection with the proceedings of that court or he is an officer of that
court; or
(b) he is a parent or guardian of a child or young person whose presence is necessary in connection
with the proceedings of that court; or
(c) he is the legal practitioner representing such child or young person or parent or guardian; or
(d) the officer presiding at that sitting has granted him permission to be present; or
(e) he is the person in charge of the home or institution in which the child is residing or the nominee of
such person.
(7) On the application of a children's court assistant, the clerk of the children's court to which that
assistant is attached shall subpoena any witness to give evidence or to produce a book or document at any
proceedings of that court.
(8) On the application of any person who is likely to be affected by any order which may be made by a
children's court as a result of any proceedings therein, or on the application of the representative of such
person, the clerk of the children's court shall subpoena any witness to give evidence or to produce a book
or document at those proceedings.
(9) Any subpoena referred to in subsection (7) or (8) shall be served in the same manner as if it were a
subpoena for the attendance of a witness at a criminal trial in a magistrates court.
(10) Sections 74, 75 and 76 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, in connection with a person subpoenaed in terms of subsection (7) or (8) or required by
the officer presiding over a children's court to give evidence in any proceedings in such court.
(11) The Minister responsible for justice may make rules for regulating the procedure in children's
courts and may make different rules for the various matters which in terms of this Act are to be dealt
with in children's courts.
(12) Such records of the proceedings of a children's court shall be kept as may be prescribed and shall,
subject to section seventy-four, be accessible to such persons and upon such conditions as to payment of
fees and otherwise as may be prescribed.
6 Certain provisions of Cap 7:10 to apply to children's courts
Subject to this Act and any rules, the Magistrates Court Act [Chapter 7:10] and the rules made thereunder as to—
(a) the appointment and functions of officers; and
(b) the issue and service of process; and
(c) the appearance in court of legal practitioners; and
(d) the execution of judgments; and
(e) the imposition of penalties for non-compliance with orders of court, for obstruction of the execution
of judgments and for contempt of court;
shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to children's courts.
PART III
PREVENTION OF NEGLECT, ILL-TREATMENT AND
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
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