Schedule, The Child Right Act, 2007

Name of enactment Extent of amendment 1. Protection of Women In section 2, immediately after the word and Girls Act, Cap. 30. “under”, substitute “eighteen” for “twenty-one”. Section 3, immediately after the word “girl” insert the words “under eighteen years of age”. 2. Prevention of Cruelty to Substitute “eighteen years” for “six- Children Act, Cap. 31. teen years” in section 2, definition of “child” and in section 4. 3. Children and Young Persons Section 2, definition of “young person Act, Cap. 44. ” substitute “eighteen years” for “seventeen years”. 4. Muslim Marriage Act, Cap 96. Section 9 (2) paragraphs (a) and (b) for the words appearing after “intestate” substitute, “if eighteen years or above”. Section 10, for “twenty-one years” substitute “eighteen years”. 5. Armed Forces of Sierra Leone Section 2, the definition of “boy” sub- Act,1961 (Act No. 34 of 1961) stitute “eighteen years” for “seventeen and half years” In section 16 (2) and any other refrence to the age of enlistment, attestation or recruitment into the Armed Forces of Sierra Leone, substitute “eighteen years” for the reference to “seventeen and a half years”. 6. Interpretation Act, 1971 Section 4, in definition of “infant” sub- (Act No. 8 of 1971) stitute “eighteen years” for “twentyone years”. 58 59 Name of Enactment Extent of amendment Passed in Parliament this 7th day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand and seven. A. A. KEMOKAI, Clerk of Parliament. T HIS P RINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. A. A. KEMOKAI, Clerk of Parliament. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE G OVERNMENT P RINTING D EPARTMENT , S IERRA LEONE. GAZETTE EXTRORDINARY NO. 43 OF 3RD SEPTEMBER, 2007.