ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Children Act
125.
Edition: 2019-01-18 · Repealed
125.
, the person intending to make the application shall forthwith notify the Director or his representative, of the name and address of the child and the day and hour when, and the nature of the grounds on which, he is to be brought before the court.(11)The Director having received a notice under subsection (9), shall make such investigations and render available to the court such information as to the home, circumstances, age, health, character and general antecedents of the child or as may be necessary to assist the court.(12)When it appears to an appointed local authority or a charitable children’s institution that a child in its area is in need of care and protection and that its intervention is necessary, the local authority or charitable children’s institution shall receive such child into its care and need not bring him before a court immediately:Provided that—(a)the local authority or charitable children’s institution shall notify the Director within seven days of receiving the child into its care;(b)the child shall be brought before a court within three months;(c)a monthly report is rendered to the Director of all children received and held;(d)all cases are investigated by the local authority, or charitable children’s institution;(e)the local authority or charitable children’s institution shall not retain the child in its care if his parent or guardian seeks to assume the care of the child;(f)the local authority, or charitable children’s institution shall, when it appears to be in the interests of the child, endeavour to secure that the care of the child is assumed by a parent or guardian or a person who has parental responsibility for the child by a relative or friend who should, if possible, be of the same religion, race, tribe or clan as the child.(13)A local authority or charitable children’s institution which receives a child into its care under the provisions of this section shall be entitled to recover the cost of maintenance of such child from his parent, guardian or the person who has responsibility for the child.