Section 131 of The Children Act CAP 141: Neglect or misapplication of assets by guardian of a child’s estate

(1) Any guardian of the estate of a child who— (a) willfully or recklessly neglects to receive or safeguard any asset forming part of the estate, misapplies any such asset or subjects any such asset...

The Chief Justice shall make regulations to give effect to this Part, including rules of procedure directing the manner in which applications may be made under this Part.

(1) The Court may make any order under this Act or any other written law for the protection of a child in any proceedings concerning the welfare and upbringing of the child. (2) The persons qualified...

(1) The Court may from time to time where appropriate make any of the following orders— (a) an access order, which shall require the person with whom the child is residing to allow the child to...

(1) The Court may, either of its own motion or on application by any person for any order directing the care and protection of a child, make an order, in this Act referred to as a supervision order,...

(1) The Court may make an interim supervision order, either of its own motionor on application by any person— (a) where the Court has reason to believe that the living conditions of the child...

(1) A Court which has made a supervision order or an interim supervision ordermay vary or discharge the order on application by— (a) the child with the leave of the Court; (b) the parents or...

Where a Court makes an order pursuant to section 135(1) (c), (d) or (g), the Court may attach a power of arrest to the order, and the person named in the order shall be liable to arrest if he or she...

Any person who contravenes an order made under section 135, or who obstructs or unlawfully interferes with a person appointed by the Court in the execution of his duties under an order made under that...

The Court may— (a) from time to time review, vary, suspend or discharge any order made under this Part; or (b) revive an order after the order has been suspended or discharged.

For the purpose of this Part— "a child in need of care and protection" means a child who lives in difficult circumstances and needs to be protected from all kinds of neglect, abuse or...

A Children’s Court shall have jurisdiction to make an order or render judgment under this Part notwithstanding that any act, matter, thing or circumstances giving rise to such order or judgment did...

For the purposes of this Act, a child in need of care and protection includes a child— (a) who is an orphan and has no guardian; (b) who has been abandoned by their parent or guardian; (c) who is...

(1) Any person who has reasonable cause to believe that a child is in need of care and protection may report the matter to the nearest authorised officer, who shall take such steps as may be necessary...

(1) If it appears to an authorised officer exercising powers under section 144 that a child is in need of healthcare, the officer shall forthwith take the child to a registered health institution, and...

(1) If a child in need of care and protection is brought before a Court, andthe Court determines that the child has a home in, or has been found in the local limits of, a particular county government...

(1) If a child in need of care and protection is brought before the Court on anapplication by any person for orders in that regard, the parent, guardian or other person having parental responsibility...

The Director of Public Prosecutions may authorise the Secretary at any stage in the proceedings under this Act, whether before, during or after the making of any application, to take over and assume...

(1) A Court before which any child in need of care and protection is brought may require an authorised officer or any other person to give a report or professional advice on any aspect of the...

(1) Where a child is, by an order of the Court made under this Part, removed from the care of any person, and that person is entitled under any trust to receive any sum of money in respect of the...

(1) Any person who, having parental responsibility, custody, charge or care of any child, and who— (a) wilfully assaults, ill-treats, abandons, or exposes, in any manner likely to cause the child...

(1) In this section "care order" means an order entrusting the care, control and custody of the child to a person other than the parent, guardian or custodian of the child, or an institution appointed...

(1) In determining the terms of a care order, the Court may— (a) consider any prior arrangements made by the Secretary for allowing any person access to the child during the period within which the...

(1) A Court may, either of its own motion or on application by any person, make an interim care order on any of the grounds specified in section 153 (2). (2) Without prejudice to the generality of...

(1) A care order or interim order may be discharged— (a) by the making of an adoption order in respect of the child; (b) in any case where the care order was not made in respect of the child by...

(1) Where the Court makes a care order directing that a child be committed to a rehabilitation school on being found guilty of an offence, the committal order shall specify the grounds on which the...

The Court making a care order under this Part in relation to a child committed to a rehabilitation school shall direct that the order be delivered to the manager of the rehabilitation school together...

(1) Where a person authorised to escort a child to a rehabilitation school is unable to find or obtain custody of the child, the Court may, if satisfied by information on oath that a person named in...

Where a child has been placed under care in a rehabilitation school, any person who harbours or conceals the child after the time fixed for the child to enter the rehabilitation school, commits an...

(1) A child who escapes from a fit person, charitable children’s institution to whose care the child has been entrusted under this Act, or from any person or institution with whom the child has been...

(1) Where a child escapes from any person or institution with whom or withwhich the child has been placed by a charitable children’s institution or county public entity, the manager, person in charge...

(1) Any child who escapes from a children’s remand home or while being escorted thereto or therefrom, may be apprehended without warrant and dealt with in accordance with section 157. (2) Any child...

Any person who willfully and knowingly— (a) aids or induces a child— (i) to run away from a fit person, a charitable children’s institution, children remand home or a rehabilitation institution or...

(1) If a Children’s Court is satisfied by information on oath that there arereasonable grounds for believing that a child has escaped or done any of the things specified in section 163, and that some...

(1) Where a person appears before any Court for the purpose of givingevidence, and it appears to the Court that the accused, the victim or complainant to whom the proceeding relates is under eighteen...

Where a Court makes an order placing a child under the care of a rehabilitation school, the court shall not make a contribution order requiring a parent or guardian of the child to contribute any sums...

(1) The Cabinet Secretary may enter into an agreement with the government of any other country or territory on such terms and conditions as the Cabinet Secretary may think fit, under which a child who...

The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code with respect to bonds for good behaviour, including the provisions as to their enforcement, shall apply to bonds entered into under this Part.

(1) The overriding objectives of foster care placement are— (a) to protect and nurture children in need of care and protection by providing a safe, healthy environment with wholesome support; (b) to...

(1) In this Part, "foster care" includes— (a) placement of a child in foster care on short term basis for a period not exceeding three years— (i) in situations of emergency; (ii) where the child is...

(1) For the purposes of this Part, a child may be placed under foster care either on the direct intervention of the Secretary or pursuant to an order of the Court, and such placement shall, in the...

(1) Any person wishing to foster a child shall make an application to the Secretary in the prescribed form. (2) On receipt of the application referred to in subsection (1), the Secretary shall...

(1) Any of the following persons may apply to be appointed a foster parent or foster parents— (a) spouses of a marriage where one or both the spouses are between twenty-five and sixty-five years of...

The Secretary shall not authorize foster care placement of a child if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the application has not been done following the procedure set out in rules...

Not more than four children may be placed in foster care with a single person or two persons in the same household, except where— (a) the children are siblings or blood relatives; or (b) the...

(1) A person shall not, for the purposes of fostering a child, retain in his care andcustody a child whose parent, custodian or guardian cannot be readily identified, without first notifying the...

(1) The Secretary may, on the application of a foster parent or the parentor guardian of a child, direct that an agreement be made between the foster parent and the parent or guardian of a child...

(1) Any foster care placement made under this Part may be terminated on the written direction of the Secretary if the termination is, in the Secretary’s opinion, in the best interest of the...

A person who, without reasonable cause, contravenes any of the provisions of this Part commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings or to...

The Cabinet Secretary shall make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Part.