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Act No. 17 of 2016
Act No. 17 of 2016 » Childrens Amendment Act, 2016
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Act No. 17 of 2016 » Childrens Amendment Act, 2016
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Parliament of the Republic of SA
Gazette
National Gazettes
, No.
40564
of 19 January, 2017, 11 page(s), 176Kb
Act
Act No. 17 of 2016
2 No. 40564 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19 January 2017 Act No. 17 of 2016 Children’s Amendment Act, 2016 GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: []Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments. Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments. (English text signed by the President) (Assented to 18 January 2017) ACT To amend the Children’s Act, 2005, so as to insert certain de?nitions; 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 ?nding 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 responsibili- ties 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. B E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:— Amendment of section 1 ofAct 38 of 2005, as amended by section 3 ofAct 41 of 2007 1. Section 1 of the Children’s Act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended— 5 (a) by the insertion after the de?nition of ‘‘commissioning parent’’ of the following de?nition: ‘‘ ‘Constitution’ means the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996;’’; and
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