CHILD CARE, PROTECTION AND JUSTICE

CHAPTER 26:03
CHILD CARE, PROTECTION AND JUSTICE

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION

Division 1
Child Care and Protection by the Family

    3.    Duties and responsibilities of parents

    4.    Duties and responsibilities of children

    5.    Parentage

    6.    Evidence of parentage

    7.    Determination of parentage

    8.    Custody and access

    9.    Application for maintenance

    10.    Consideration for maintenance

    11.    Request for social inquiry report

    12.    Maintenance order

    13.    Attachment order

    14.    Persons entitled to receive maintenance funds

    15.    Duration of maintenance order

    16.    Continuation of maintenance orders

    17.    Variation or discharge of orders

    18.    Enforcement of maintenance orders

    19.    Joint responsibility to maintain a child

    20.    Maintenance during matrimonial proceedings

    21.    Power to make maintenance funds to be paid to a person other than the applicant

    22.    Offences

Division 2
Children in Need of Care and Protection

    23.    Determination of children in need of care and protection

    24.    Taking a child into place of safety

    25.    Presentation before child justice court

    26.    Child in need of medical examination

    27.    Medical examination and treatment

    28.    Hospitalization

    29.    Control over hospitalized children

    30.    Authorization of medical treatment

    31.    Steps to be taken after medical examination or treatment

    32.    No liability incurred for giving authorization

    33.    Duty of a medical officer

    34.    Duty of members of the family

    35.    Duty of child care provider

    36.    Duty of members of the community

    37.    Functions of child justice courts in cases of children in need of care

Division 3
Guardianship

    38.    Appointment of guardian

    39.    Appointment of a testamentary guardian

    40.    Application for the appointment of a guardian by a child or family member

    41.    Application for the appointment of a guardian by other persons, other than a child or a family member

    42.    Extension of guardianship beyond a child’s sixteenth birthday

    43.    Power to revoke, modify or vary a guardians order

    44.    Disputes between guardians

    45.    Offences by guardians

Division 4
Fosterage

    46.    Public foster homes

    47.    Private foster homes

    48.    Management of foster homes

    49.    Foster home placement

    50.    Responsibilities of a manager of a foster home

    51.    Commitment of a child to a foster parent

    52.    Application to foster a child

    53.    Responsibilities of foster parents

    54.    Persons qualified to foster children

    55.    Procedure before placement

    56.    Religion

    57.    Cultural background

    58.    Undertaking by foster parents

    59.    Medical arrangements

    60.    Supervising officer

    61.    Visits during placement

    62.    Marriages

    63.    Termination of placement

    64.    Surrendering a foster child

    65.    Illness of foster child

    66.    Death of foster child

    67.    Records

    68.    Application for adoption

    69.    Offences

Division 5
Support for Children by Local Authorities

    70.    General functions of local government authorities

    71.    Secretary for children affairs

    72.    Registration of children with disabilities

    73.    Duty to provide accommodation to children in need

    74.    Tracing of parents or guardians

    75.    Duty to report infringement of a child’s rights

    76.    Registration of births and deaths of children

    77.    Registration of children affected by HIV and AIDS

Division 6
Protection of Children from Undesirable Practices

    78.    Child abduction

    79.    Child trafficking

    80.    Harmful cultural practices

    81.    Forced marriage or betrothal

    82.    Pledge of a child as security

    83.    Offences

    84.    Inquiries and placements

    85.    Child recovery order

PART III
CHILDREN SUSPECTED TO HAVE COMMITTED OFFENCES

Division 1
General Principles

    86.    Mode of pronouncing a finding against a child

    87.    Non-effect of a finding against a child

    88.    General consideration

Division 2
Methods of Bringing a Child Offender Before a Court or Other Inquiry

    89.    Arrest of a child

    90.    Guidelines on arrest of children

    91.    Summons

    92.    Arrest of a child by a private person

    93.    Reference to a probation officer

    94.    Police powers to caution and release

Division 3
Detention Before a Finding Against a Child

    95.    Restriction on detention before a finding against a child

    96.    Places of detention before a finding against a child

    97.    Child not to associate with adult offenders

    98.    Bail of children

Division 4
Preliminary Inquiry

    99.    Nature and objectives of a preliminary inquiry

    100.    Persons who shall attend a preliminary inquiry

    101.    Persons who may attend a preliminary inquiry

    102.    Procedure relating to holding of a preliminary…