Child Care Act, 1983 (Act No. 74 of 1983)

Chapter 5 : Places of Safety, Children’s Homes and Places of Care

32. Cancellation or surrender of certificate of registration
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1)
a)A certificate of registration issued under section 30(3) may at any time be cancelled by the Minister or may at any time be surrendered to the Minister, but no such certificate shall be so cancelled except after not less than one month’s written notice of the intention to cancel that certificate has been given to the person in whose name it was issued, and after consideration by the Minister of any representations which may be submitted in pursuance of such notice.
b)Written notice shall be given of any cancellation or surrender of a certificate of registration.

 

2)
a)The cancellation or surrender of a certificate of registration shall take effect on the date specified in the document whereby notice is given of the cancellation or surrender.
b)Unless the Minister and the person in whose name the certificate of registration was issued agree on the date, the date mentioned in paragraph (a) shall not be earlier than a date three months after the date upon which notice of the cancellation or surrender was given.

 

3)The managers of a children's home or shelter shall within three months after written notice has been given of the cancellation or surrender of the certificate of registration of that children’s home or shelter in terms of subsection (1), transfer to his or her parents or guardian or to any children’s home or other suitable place approved by the Minister, every child in such first-mentioned children’s home or shelter other than a child placed in the custody of that children’s home under this Act.

 

4)After the cancellation or surrender of the certificate of registration of any children’s home in terms of this section, the Minister shall act under section 34, or under section 37, in respect of every child who was placed in the custody of that children’s home under this Act and who was in that children’s home at the time of the cancellation or surrender of the certificate.