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The Act and the Bill

The Child Justice Bill

Archive documentThis page is part of the document archive that this domain has carried since the campaign for South Africa’s Child Justice Act. It is reproduced as a historical record: the dates, figures and contact details in it belong to the period it was written in and are not current. It is not legal advice, and it is not published on behalf of the Child Justice Alliance.
The Child Justice Bill [B49 of 2002]
The Bill has been signed by the President and is now the Child Justice Act, 75 of 2022

The Bill had gone through various changes since the late 1990s:




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