Section 277 Child’s Right Act

Section 277 Child’s Right Act 2003 is about Interpretation. It is under Part XXIV (Miscellaneous) of the Act.

In this Act‐
“act” includes an omission;
“adoption service” means an adoption service established under section 128 of this Act;
“age of majority” means the age at which a person attains the age of eighteen years;

“appropriate education authority” means the Ministry of Education of the State concerned;
“approved institution” has the meaning assigned to in section 285 of this Act;
“care order” has the meaning given by section 53 (1) (a) of this Act and also includes any order which by or under any enactment has the effect of, or is deemed to be, a care order for the purposes of this Act; and any reference to a child who is in the care of an authority is a reference to a child who is in its care by virtue of a care order;

“child assessment order” means an order made under section 41 (1) of this Act;
“child fostered privately” and “to foster a child privately” have the same meaning as in section
120 of this Act;

“child in need of special protection measures” includes a child who is mentally or physically
disabled and a street child;
“child minder” has the meaning given by section 163 of this Act;
“child” means, a person under the age of eighteen years;
“child of the family” in relation to the parties to a marriage, means‐
(a) a child of both of those parties;
(b) any other child, not being a child who is placed with those parties as foster parents by a local authority or voluntary organisation, who has been treated by both of those parties as a child of their family;

“children’s home” means a children’s home registered under section 195 of this Act;
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner charge with responsibility for matters relating to
children in the State and “Ministry” shall be construed accordingly;
“community home” has the meaning assigned to it under section 186 of this Act;
“contact order” has the meaning assigned to it under section 55 (9) of this Act;

“court” means the Family court established under section 149 of this Act;
“day care” has the meaning assigned to it under ‘section 163 of this Act;
“disabled” in relation to a child has the same meaning as the section 178 (8) of this Act;
“domestic premises” has the meaning assigned to it under section 168 (1)(a) of this Act;
“education supervision order” means an order under section 58 (1) of this Act

“education authority” means the Ministry of Education of a State;
“emergency protection order” means an order under section 42 (1) of this Act;
“family proceedings” means proceeding under the jurisdiction of a court under this Act with
respect to children;

“foster parent” has the meaning assigned to it under section 118 of this Act;
“functions” includes powers and duties;
“Government hospital” means a hospital established or managed by any Government of the Federation;
” Governor ” means the Governor of a State;

“guardian of a child” means a guardian (other than a guardian of the estate of a child)
appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 85 (1) of this Act;
“harm” has meaning assigned to it under section 35 of this Act;
“health authority” means the Ministry of Health of a State;

“ill‐treatment” has the meaning assigned to it under section 50(1),(b) of this Act;
“independent school” means a privately owned school;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with responsibility for matters relating to children and
“Ministry” shall be construed accordingly;
“parental responsibility” means ‐
(a) all the rights duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property; and

(b) the rights, powers and duties which a guardian of the estate of the child appointed, before the commencement of this Act to act generally would have had in relation to the child and his property, and includes, in particular, the right of the guardian to recover or receive in his own name or the benefit of the child, property of whatever description and wherever situated which the child is entitled to receive or recover;

“parental responsibility agreement” has the meaning assigned to it under section 68 of this Act
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;
“prohibited steps order” has the meaning assigned to it under ,section 55 (9) of this Act;

“protected child” has the same meaning as in Part IV of this Act;
“registered children’s home” has the meaning assigned to it under Section 199 of this Act;
“relative” in relation to a child, means a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle, niece or nephew aunt whether of the full blood or half blood or by affinity or step ‐parent;
“responsible person” in relation to a child who is the subject of a supervision order, has the meaning assigned to it under paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule to this Act;

“school” has the meaning assigned to it in the Education (National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institution, Act;
“secure accommodation” means accommodation which is provided in a community home for the purpose of restricting liberty;
“service” in relation to any provision made under Part XV of this Act, includes a facility;