CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002) (b) remit the matter to the children's court with instructions as to the further proceedings to be had in such matter as the judge thinks fit. (3) The execution of any order made in terms of subsection (1), (2) or (3) of section twenty or subsection (3) of section twenty-five shall not be suspended by the transmission of or the obligation to transmit the record of the proceedings in terms of subsection (1) nor by reason of the fact that there is in existence an order of the High Court relating to the custody of the child or young person to whom the order of the children's court relates. (4) An order made in terms of subsection (1), (2) or (3) of section twenty in respect of any child or young person shall be deemed to discharge any previous order made in terms of any such subsection or in terms of subsection (3) of section twenty-five in respect of the same child or young person unless the court otherwise directs. (5) An order made in terms of subsection (1) or (2) of section 351 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] in respect of any person shall be deemed to discharge any previous order made in terms of subsection (1), (2) or (3) of section twenty or subsection (3) of section twenty-five in respect of the same person unless the court otherwise directs. PART V PLACES OF SAFETY, REMAND HOMES, INSTITUTIONS AND TRAINING INSTITUTES 28 Places of safety and remand homes (1) The Minister may establish and maintain places of safety for the reception of children and young persons in terms of this Act. (1a)43 The Minister shall encourage local authorities and other persons or organizations to establish and maintain places of safety for the reception of children and young persons in terms of this Act. (1b)44 The Director shall maintain a register of all private homes which are established as places of safety in terms of this section. (2) The Minister may establish and maintain remand homes for the reception and detention of children and young persons awaiting trial, sentence or removal to a certified institution or training institute3. (3) The Director may authorize the use of a certified institution or a training institute as a remand home for the purposes of subsection (2). (4) A remand home established in terms of subsection (2) shall be under the management of the Director. 29 Minister may establish training institutes and institutions (1) The Minister may establish and maintain training institutes and institutions for the reception, maintenance and training of children, young persons and others placed therein in terms of this Act or any other enactment. (2) A training institute or institution established in terms of subsection (1) shall be under the management of the Director. (3) The Minister may appoint for any training institute or institution established in terms of subsection (1) an advisory committee which shall consist of not less than three and not more than nine members, representative of both sexes, who shall hold office for such period as the Minister may fix. (4) The Minister may at any time terminate the appointment of any member of an advisory committee and may appoint a member in place of any member who dies or resigns his appointment or whose appointment has been terminated. (5) An advisory committee shall advise the Director on the management and conduct of the training institute or institution for which it has been appointed: 3 Subsection amended by s. 48 of Act 23/2001. 20

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