Child Care Amendment Act 86 of 1991

The Child Care Amendment Act 86 of 1991 intends:

• to amend the Child Care Act, 1983 [repealed in 2010], so as
• to substitute certain definitions;
• to abolish the Child Welfare Advisory Council;
• to provide that a child who has a parent or guardian who cannot be traced, may be brought before a children’s court, which can hold an inquiry and make an order in respect of such a child;
• to further regulate the powers of the childrens’ courts;
• to further regulate the designation of a children’s home or school of industries as a result of an order of a children’s court;
• to further regulate the qualifications for adoption of children;
• to increase fines;
• to provide for the observation, examination and treatment of children in places of safety;
• to further regulate the transfer of a child from an institution or custody to the custody of his parents or guardian;
• to make it an offence to counsel, to induce or to aid a pupil or child to whom leave of absence was granted not to return or to prevent him from returning to the institution or custody from which leave of absence was granted;
• to further regulate the medical treatment of children;
• to abolish the requirement that the race classification of a child and the person in whose custody the child is placed should be the same;
• to further regulate the notification of injured children and children who suffer from a nutritional deficiency disease;
• to make the offence relating to the ill-treatment of children applicable to all persons;
• to prohibit the employment of certain children;
• to further regulate the finand support for the maintenance of pupils and certain children; and
• to authorize the Minister to make regulations as to the search of children in places of safety; and 
• to provide for incidental matters.

Commencement

19 June 1991