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ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person.

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Malta Government Gazette — Act 2014 33 · Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,296 – 14.08.2014 — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person.

Preamble — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person. Open official source

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

14th August, 2014

ACT No. XXXIII of 2014

AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care

Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the

request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

Malta Government Gazette — Act 2014 33 · Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,296 – 14.08.2014 — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person.

Art. 1 — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person. Open official source

(1) The short title of this Act is the Children and Young Short title and

Persons (Care Orders) (Amendment) Act, 2014 and this Act shall be commencement.

read and construed as one with the Children and Young Persons (Care Cap. 285.

Orders) Act, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

(2) This Act shall come into force on such a date as the

Minister responsible for justice may by notice in the Gazette appoint.

Malta Government Gazette — Act 2014 33 · Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,296 – 14.08.2014 — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person.

Art. 2 — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person. Open official source

Sub-article (5) of article 4 of the principal Act shall be Amendment to

renumbered as sub-article (6) and immediately after sub-article (4), article

principal Act.

there shall be added the following new sub-article

"(5) If the Juvenile Court confirms the order made under

sub-article (1), the person referred to in the said sub-article may,

after four months following such confirmation, request the

Juvenile Court to review the order. Such a request shall be made

by means of a registered letter to the Director of the Department

responsible for Social Welfare. The Director shall, not later than

seven days from the date of the receipt of such letter, refer the

case to the Juvenile Court in the same manner as prescribed by

the regulations made under article 13, so however that the said

Court shall give its decision and the said reference within twenty-

one days from when it is made to it.".

Malta Government Gazette — Act 2014 33 · Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,296 – 14.08.2014 — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person.

Art. 3 Amendment to article 13 of the principal Act. — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person. Open official source

In paragraph (a) of article 13 of the principal Act for the

words "article 4(3) and (4)" there shall be substituted the words

"article 4 (3), (4) and (5)".

Malta Government Gazette — Act 2014 33 · Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,296 – 14.08.2014 — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person.

Art. 4 Consequential amendment to the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act, — ACT No. XXXIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Children and Young Persons (Care Orders) Act, to provide a mechanism for review of care orders on the request of the parent or the guardian of the child or young person. Open official source

In subarticle (1) of article 50 of the Notarial Profession and

Notarial Archives Act for the words "within fifteen days", there shall

be substituted the words "within fifteen working days".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 184 of the

25th July, 2014.

A NĠLU F ARRUGIA

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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