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Contributions.
Contribution
orders.
CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION
(3) The Minister may by order published in the Gazette
amend subsection (1) by increasing or decreasing any age
specified in that subsection.
29.-(1) Where a court makes a fit person order or an order
sending the child to a juvenile correctional centre, the court may
order the following persons to make contributions in respect of
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the child-
(a)
the child's father, adopted father or step-father;
(b) the child's mother, adopted mother or step-mother; and
(c)
any person who, at the date when any such order is
made, is cohabiting with the mother of the child,
whether he is the putative father or not.
(2) Where
a
child has been committed to the care of a fit
person, contributions under this Act shall be payable to the
Government agency responsible for children, to be applied in or
towards the maintenance, or otherwise for the benefit, of the
child.
(3) Where a child has been committed to a juvenile
correctional centre, contributions under this Act shall be payable
to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue.
30.-(1)
A
contribution order may be made in accordance
with this section where a fit person order or
a
correctional order
has been made in respect of a child.
(2) The contribution order may be made-
(a) by the court which makes the fit person order or the
correctional order, at the same time when it makes that
order; or
(b) subject to the provisions of section 32, by any
court of summary jurisdiction having jurisdiction in the
place where the person to be charged is for the time
being residing, on the application of-
(i) the person to whose care the child is
committed; or
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