Child Care Act, 1983 (Act No. 74 of 1983)Chapter 6 : Special provisions regarding pupils, foster children and other children42. Notification of injured children and children who suffer from nutritional deficiency disease |
| 1) | Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law every dentist, medical practitioner, nurse, social worker or teacher, or any person employed by or managing a children's home, place of care or shelter, who examines, attends or deals with any child in circumstances giving rise to the suspicion that that child has been ill-treated, or suffers from any injury, single or multiple, the cause of which probably might have been deliberate, or suffers from a nutritional deficiency disease, shall immediately notify the Director-General or any officer designated by him or her for the purposes of this section, of those circumstances. |
| 2) | On receipt of a notification in terms of subsection (1) the Director-General or the said officer may issue a warrant in the prescribed form and manner for the removal of the child concerned to a place of safety or a hospital. |
| 3) | The Director-General or the said officer shall thereupon arrange that the child and his parents receive such treatment as the Director-General or the said officer may determine. |
| 4) | This section shall not exclude any other action against or treatment of the parent and his child in terms of this Act. |
| 5) | Any dentist, medical practitioner, nurse, social worker or teacher, or any person employed by or managing a children’s home, place of care or shelter, who contravenes any provision of this section shall be guilty of an offence. |
| 6) | No legal proceedings shall lie against any dentist, medical practitioner, nurse, social worker or teacher, or any person employed by or managing of a children’s home, place of care or shelter, in respect of any notification given in good faith in accordance with this section. |