Prevention of Family Violence Act, 1993 (Act No. 133 of 1993)

4. Obligation to report ill-treatment of children

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Any person who examines, treats, attends to, advises, instructs or cares for any child in circumstances which ought to give rise to the reasonable suspicion that such child has been ill-treated, or suffers from any injury the probable cause of which was deliberate, shall immediately report such circumstances—

(a)        to a police official; or

(b)        to a commissioner of child welfare or a social worker referred to in section 1 of the Child Care Act, 1983 (Act No. 74 of 1983).