Child Care Protection Act

CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION

(b) a copy of a policy of insurance, certified to be a true

copy by an officer or agent of the insurance company

granting the policy, shall be evidence that the child

therein stated to be insured has in fact been so insured

and that the person in whose favour the policy has been

granted is the person to whom the money thereby

insured is legally payable.

(9)

Any reference in this section, section 50(3) or

to a

Resident Magistrate, in so far as it relates-

(a) to a Resident Magistrate for the parish of Kingston or

for the parish of St. Andrew shall be construed as a

reference to a Judge of the Family Court-Corporate

Area Region; and

(b) to a Resident Magistrate for a parish within the

geographical jurisdiction of the Family Court

established pursuant to Part

of the Judicature (Family

Court) Act shall be construed as a reference to a Judge

of that Family Court.

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1) No person shall sell or participate in the trafficking

of any child.

(2) Any person who commits an offence under subsection

(1) shall be liable on conviction on indictment before a Circuit

Court, to a fine or to imprisonment with hard labour for a term

not exceeding ten years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

11.-(1) If it appears to a Justice of the Peace on information

on oath laid by any person who, in the opinion of the Justice of

the Peace is acting in the interests of a child that there is

reasonable cause to suspect-

(a) that the child has been or is being assaulted, ill-treated

or neglected in a manner likely to cause that child

unnecessary suffering; or

(b) that any offence mentioned in the Second Schedule has

been, is being or is likely to be committed in respect

of the child, the Justice of the Peace may act in

accordance with subsection (2) or (3).

Prohibition

against sale

trafficking

of children.

Warrant to

search for

and remove

child.

Second

Schedule.

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