CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002)
(d) that exposes a child or young person to electronically-powered hand-tools, cutting or grinding blades
(e) that exposes a child or young person to extreme heat, cold, noise or whole body vibration;
(f) that is night shift work;
"health officer"9 means a health practitioner who is registered in terms of the Medical Dental and Allied Professions Act [Chapter 27:08] and is designated as a health officer for purposes of this Act by the
Minister after consulting the Minister responsible for health;
“infant” means a person under the age of seven years;
“institution” means a creche or other institution maintained and controlled by a person for the reception, maintenance and supervision of children or young persons but does not include—
(a) a building for the accommodation of school children which forms part of a private school registered
in terms of the Education Act [Chapter 25:04]; or
(b) a certified institution;
and, if the context so requires, any reference to an institution shall be deemed to include a reference to the management of that
institution;
“legal guardian” means a tutor testamentary, tutor dative or assumed tutor to whom letters of confirmation have been granted in terms of the law relating to the administration of estates and includes a
husband of a girl who is under eighteen years of age;
“local authority” means—
(a) a municipal council or town council; or
(b) any rural council, district council or other authority which is designated by the Minister, by notice
in a statutory instrument, to be a local authority for the purposes of this Act;
“maintain”, in relation to a child or young person, includes to undertake the custody or care of that
child or young person;
“maintenance”, in relation to a child or young person, includes the custody or care of that child or
young person;
“management” means a person or persons who have the management and control of a certified institution, training institute or institution;
“Minister” means the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare or any other Minister to
whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act;
“minor” means a person under the age of eighteen years;
“parent” means the father or mother of a person born of, or legitimated by, a lawful marriage or the
mother of an illegitimate person and includes a step-parent and, except in Part VII, an adopter;
“period of further supervision”, in relation to a pupil, means the period during which that pupil
shall, in terms of subsection (2) of section twenty-five or subsection (3) of section 352 of the Criminal
Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07], remain under the supervision of a certified institution or
training institute;
“period of retention”10 means the period during which a child, young person or person shall, in terms
of subsection (1) of section twenty-five or subsection (1) of section 352 of the Criminal Procedure and
Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07], remain in a certified institution or training institute or under any supervision or custody;
“place of safety” means any police station or hospital or any place suitable for the reception of a child
or young person into which the occupier thereof is willing to receive a child or young person or any place
established in terms of subsection (1) of section twenty-eight;
“probation officer”11 means a person registered as a social worker in terms of the Estate Agents Act
[Chapter 27:21] and appointed as a probation officer appointed in terms of section forty-six;
“public place” means any place to which the public has access, whether free or on payment of a fee;
“pupil”12 means any person who—
(a) in terms of this Act or any other enactment, has been placed in or received in a certified institution
or training institute; or
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