Child Welfare Society of Kenya Order
3. Interpretation
3. Interpretation
In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires-"Act" means the State Corporations Act;"adoption" means the process through which a child is permanently placed with an alternative family and is provided with new permanent legal parents and severs the bond between a child and the child's natural parents;"Board" means Board established under paragraph 7;"Board of Trustees" means the Board of Trustees registered under the irrevocable Trust Deed of the Child Welfare Society of Kenya on the 12th June, 1970 as reviewed from time to time;"Cabinet Secretary" means the Cabinet Secretary responsible for children;"Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed in accordance with paragraph 16;"child" has the meaning assigned in the Children Act (Cap. 141);"children without appropriate care" means children who are lost, abandoned, in institutions, in abusive families or in unformalized foster care or unformalized adoption, in child headed households, living in the streets, of imprisoned parents, in emergency situations, refugees and other separated children;"duty bearer" means any person or institution, including the state that has the responsibility of promoting the welfare of the child;"Endowment and Trust Fund" means the Fund established under the Trust Deed of the 12th June, 1970;"family" includes the nuclear family, extended family, foster family, adoptive family, kinship care family and guardianship family;"foster care" means temporary placement of a child or children who for any reason cannot remain in the natural family and urgently require alternative family care while other measures are being undertaken to address their circumstances in order to either restore the child or children to their families or place them in a permanent family set up;"Society" means the Child Welfare Society of Kenya established by paragraph 4 of this Order;"temporary places of safety" means foster families or abodes where children are cared for and are provided with residential care on a temporary basis as interventions are being made to address the circumstances under which a child was made to be in need of care and protection;"Trust Deed" means the irrevocable Trust Deed of the Child Welfare Society of Kenya dated the 12th June, 1970 as reviewed from time to time.Source: Kenya Law