Section 63, The Child Right Act, 2007

(1) A Family Court may issue a care order to the districtcouncil on application by a probation officer or social welfare officer under subsection (4) of section 62. (2) The care order shall remove the child from the situation where he is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm and shall transfer the parental rights to the council. (3) The probation officer or social welfare officer shall take custody of the child and shall determine the most suitable place for the child which may be - (a) an approved residential home; (b) with an approved fit person; or (c) at the home of a parent, guardian or relative. (4) The maximum duration of a care order shall be three years or until the child attains eighteen years which ever is earlier and the Family Court may make an interim order or may vary the order. Investigation by district council. Repeal of Part IV of Cap.44. 32 33 Care order of Act No. 7 of 2005. (5) The Family Court may make a further order that the parent, guardian or other person responsible for the child shall pay for the cost of maintaining the child. (6) A Family Court shall not designate the manager of an institution as an approved fit person to whom the care of a child can be entrusted unless the institution is one which the Minister has approved by notice published in the Gazette or the institution is assigned that function by or under an Act of Parliament.