Children’s Amendment Act 17 of 2016 (English / isiZulu)

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17 of 2016

The Children’s Amendment Act 17 of 2016 intends:

  • 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.

Commencement

26 January 2018 (Government Gazette 41399, 26 January 2018)

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