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Child Justice Act, 2008 (Act No. 75 of 2008)

Regulations

Regulations relating to Child Justice

Chapter 9 : Sentencing

47. Failure of child to comply with certain sentences

 

(1) The probation officer must provide the child justice court with a report on the failure of a child to comply with a sentence referred to in section 79(1) of the Act within seven days after becoming aware of the child's failure.

 

(2) The presiding officer to whom a report was made regarding the failure of a child to comply with a sentence, must indicate to the clerk of the child justice court a date on which the child must be brought before the child justice court.

 

(3)

(a) The clerk of the child justice court must inform the person or the institution in whose care the child is of the date and time on which the child must be brought before a child justice court for an inquiry referred to in section 79 of the Act.
(b) The clerk of the child justice court must provide to the person or institution particulars of the court and its location.
(c) The clerk of the child justice court must notify the person or institution of the particulars referred to in paragraph (a) in the manner referred to in regulation 35(4)(b) and proof of the manner in which the notice was submitted must be attached to the court record.

 

(4) The person or institution in whose care the child is, must, subject to subregulation (5), take the child to the child justice court in question.

 

(5) A police official, must, if the person or institution referred to in subregulation (4) is not in a position to bring the child to the child justice court, take the child to the child justice court.