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CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 (NO. 34 OF 2004) - SECT 29

29 .         Provisional protection and care: meaning and effect

        (1)         A reference in this Part to a child being in, taken into, or placed in, provisional protection and care is a reference to the child being in, taken into, or placed in, the care of the CEO.

        (2)         If a child is in provisional protection and care, the CEO, subject to any interim order, has the right to make decisions about the day-to-day care, welfare and development of the child, including, without limitation, decisions about any medical or dental examination, treatment or procedure in respect of the child.

        (3)         A child ceases to be in provisional protection and care if —

            (a)         the child is returned to or placed in the care of a person under section 38(2);

            (b)         the Court makes an interim order under section 133(2)(a) that the child be returned to or placed with a parent of the child;

            (c)         the Court makes an interim order under section 133(2)(c); or

            (d)         the Court makes a protection order in respect of the child or refuses to make such an order.



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