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Children's Act, 2005 (Act No. 38 of 2005)

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General Regulations Regarding Children, 2010

Chapter 12 : Alternative Care (Sections 167-179 of the Act)

59. Fees payable on transfer or provisional transfer of child in alternative care

 

(1) For the purposes of section 171(1) of the Act, the monthly fees payable by a provincial department of social development in respect of a child in alternative care in that province, must, upon transfer of that child to a child and youth care centre, or a person in whose care or temporary safe care that child has been placed in that province, be paid by the provincial department of social development to a child and youth care centre, or a person in whose care or temporary safe care that child has been transferred and placed.

 

(2) The fees referred to in sub-regulation (1) are payable from the date of arrival of the child at the person or centre referred to in that sub-regulation.

 

(3) For the purposes of section 171(2) of the Act, the monthly fees payable by a provincial department of social development in respect of a child in alternative care in that province ("sending province"), must, upon transfer of that child to a child and youth care centre or to a person in another province ("receiving province"), be terminated by the sending province and must be paid, in accordance with the rates applicable in the receiving province.

 

(4) The fees referred to in sub-regulation (3) are payable from the date of arrival of the child in the receiving province, by the provincial department of social development in such other province until the child is transferred, removed or discharged from the child and youth care centre or from the care of a person in such other province.