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Children's Amendment Act, No. 17 of 2016
NOTE: Assented to and published in English, with alternative copy in Zuliu
NOTE: Assented to and published in English, with alternative copy in Zuliu
Long title
To amend the Children’s Act, 2005, so as to insert certain definitions; to provide that a person convicted of certain offences be deemed unsuitable to work with children; to afford a child offender an opportunity to make representations as to why a finding of unsuitability to work with children should not be made; to provide that the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service must forward to the Director-General all the particulars of persons found unsuitable to work with children; to provide for a child offender to apply in the prescribed manner to have their particulars removed from the Register; to provide for the review of a decision to remove a child without a court order; to extend the circumstances as to when a child is adoptable; to extend the effects of an adoption order by providing that an adoption order does not automatically terminate all parental responsibilities and rights of a parent of a child when an adoption order is granted in favour of the spouse or permanent domestic life-partner of that parent; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Table of contents
| SECTION | TITLE |
| 1. | Amendment of section 1 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 2. | Amendment of section 120 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 3. | Amendment of section 122 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 4. | Amendment of section 128 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 5. | Amendment of section 150 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 6. | Insertion of sectoin 152A in Act 38 of 2005 |
| 7. | Amendment of section 155 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 8. | Amendment of section 159 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 9. | Amendment of section 230 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 10. | Amendment of section 242 of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 11. | Amendment of Table of contents of Act 38 of 2005 |
| 12. | Short title and commencement |
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