The Children's Code ACT No. 12 of 2022

An Act to reform and consolidate the law relating to children;
provide for parental responsibility, custody, maintenance,
guardianship, foster care, adoption, care and protection
of children; provide for the grant of legal aid to, and
establish procedures for the treatment of, children in
conflict with the law; provide for the making of social
welfare reports in respect of a child in conflict with the
law; establish diversion and alternative correctional
programmes and promote the rehabilitation of a child in
conflict with the law through programmes to facilitate
restorative justice and compliance with laws; provide for
the protection of a child victim and child witness in
investigative and judicial processes; provide for the
probation of a child in conflict with the law and provision
of probation services; provide for the development of
treatment programmes, early intervention services and
programmes to combat crime and prevent further
offending; limit the negative effects of confinement by
minimising the impact of a finding of guilty on the family
of a child in conflict with the law and facilitate the reintegration of the child in conflict with the law into society; provide for the establishment of child approved centres
and child reformatory centres; provide for the regulation
of child care facilities; provide for child safeguarding;
domesticate the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption and the Convention
on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction;
repeal the Legitimacy Act, 1929, the Adoption Act, 1956,
the Juveniles Act,1956 and the Affiliation and
Maintenance of Children Act, 1995 and provide for
matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.