CAP. 141
Children
[Rev. 2012]
empowered to make an attachment order against the defaulter’s salary or other
source of income, subject always to any written law protecting pensions or other
sources of income from attachment.
(6) A person against whom a contribution order has been made shall, if he
changes his address, forthwith give notice thereof to the person entitled to receive
the contribution, and if he fails to do so shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a
fine not exceeding five thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding
one month or to both.
(7) Any institution or person who receives payment of any moneys under a
contribution order shall keep proper accounts in respect of such moneys and shall
furnish the parents or guardian liable to make such payments with accounts in
respect of the same on a quarterly basis, or in respect of such lesser period as the
court may direct, throughout the duration of the order.
(8) Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (7) commits
an offence and shall upon conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred
thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years, or to
both.
145. International reciprocity
(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister, with the approval of the National Assembly,
to enter into an agreement with the government of any other country or territory
on such terms and conditions as he may think fit, whereby a child who has been
ordered by a court under the provisions of this Act to be sent to a rehabilitation
school or other institution or committed to the care of a fit person, may be received
into that country or territory and then placed in a rehabilitation school or other
institution approved under the relevant legislation of that country or territory or
received into the care of a fit person or returned to his parent or guardian.
(2) Any child who has been ordered under the provisions of this Act to be
placed in a rehabilitation school or any other institution, or committed to the care of
a person, may, while still subject to such order, by warrant signed by the Minister,
be removed from custody of such an institution or person into any other country
or territory with which an agreement has been concluded under subsection (1),
and placed in a rehabilitation school or other institution, placed in the care of a
fit person, or of his parent or guardian, in accordance with the law in force in the
country or territory authorising such placement until the expiration of the order or
until such child is sooner released according to law.
(3) An order of a court of a country or territory with which an agreement has
been entered into in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) which could
lawfully have been made by a court in Kenya if the person had been within its
jurisdiction, shall upon the person being received in Kenya have the same effect
and be enforceable as if the order had been made by a court in Kenya.
146. Bonds
The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 75) with respect to bonds
for good behaviour (including the provisions as to their enforcement) shall apply to
bonds entered into under this Act.
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