The Children Act CAP 141▤
Records of foster care placements
(1) A person shall not, for the purposes of fostering a child, retain in his care andcustody a child whose parent, custodian or gu…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Limitation on the number of children placed under foster care in a household
Not more than four children may be placed in foster care with a single person or two persons in the same household, except where—…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Conditions for foster care
The Secretary shall not authorize foster care placement of a child if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the ap…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Persons qualified to foster children
(1) Any of the following persons may apply to be appointed a foster parent or foster parents— (a) spouses of a marriage where one…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Application for foster care
(1) Any person wishing to foster a child shall make an application to the Secretary in the prescribed form. (2) On receipt of the…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Conditions for foster care placement
(1) For the purposes of this Part, a child may be placed under foster care either on the direct intervention of the Secretary or p…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Restrictions on periods of foster care
(1) In this Part, "foster care" includes— (a) placement of a child in foster care on short term basis for a period not exceeding t…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Objectives of foster care placement
(1) The overriding objectives of foster care placement are— (a) to protect and nurture children in need of care and protection by…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Bonds
The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code with respect to bonds for good behaviour, including the provisions as to their enfor…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Inter-country reciprocity.
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may enter into an agreement with the government of any other country or territory on such terms and cond…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Contribution order not to be made in certain cases
Where a Court makes an order placing a child under the care of a rehabilitation school, the court shall not make a contribution or…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Presumption and determination of age
(1) Where a person appears before any Court for the purpose of givingevidence, and it appears to the Court that the accused, the v…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Production of escaped child
(1) If a Children’s Court is satisfied by information on oath that there arereasonable grounds for believing that a child has esca…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Aiding escape, etc.
Any person who willfully and knowingly— (a) aids or induces a child— (i) to run away from a fit person, a charitable children’s in…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Escape from children’s remand home or rehabilitation school
(1) Any child who escapes from a children’s remand home or while being escorted thereto or therefrom, may be apprehended without w…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Duty of Charitable children’s institutions and County Public Entities
(1) Where a child escapes from any person or institution with whom or withwhich the child has been placed by a charitable children…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Escape from institutions, etc.
(1) A child who escapes from a fit person, charitable children’s institution to whose care the child has been entrusted under this…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Harbouring or concealing a child
Where a child has been placed under care in a rehabilitation school, any person who harbours or conceals the child after the time…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Escort of a child to a rehabilitation school
(1) Where a person authorised to escort a child to a rehabilitation school is unable to find or obtain custody of the child, the C…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Transmission of committal order
The Court making a care order under this Part in relation to a child committed to a rehabilitation school shall direct that the or…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Care on committal to a rehabilitation school, etc.
(1) Where the Court makes a care order directing that a child be committed to a rehabilitation school on being found guilty of an…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Discharge of care order
(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 ca…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Power to make interim care order
(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 specif…
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The Children Act CAP 141▤
Access to children in care
(1) In determining the terms of a care order, the Court may— (a) consider any prior arrangements made by the Secretary for allowin…
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