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Rh PART I PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Children and Young Persons Act 1993 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“approved home” means any institution or part thereof appointed or established under Part VI as an approved home;

“approved institution” means an institution approved under section 12 of the Probation of Offenders Act (Cap. 252) for the reception of persons who may be required to reside therein by a probation order;

“approved school” means any institution or part thereof appointed or established under Part VI as an approved school;

“child” means a person who is below the age of 14 years;

“Director” means the Director of Social Welfare and includes Deputy Directors and Assistant Directors of Social Welfare and such other person as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be a person who may exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Director;

“fit person” means a person whom the court or the protector, having regard to the character of such a person, thinks competent to provide care, protection and supervision of a child or young person;

“guardian”, in relation to a child or young person, includes any person who, in the opinion of the court having cognizance of any case in relation to the child or young person, or in which the child or young person is concerned, has for the time being the charge of, or control over, the child or young person;