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            <title>Adoption Matters Amendment Act (No. 56 of 1998)</title>
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            <title>Aged Persons Amendment Act (No. 100 of 1998)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ To amend the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1992, so as to define the   expression "child born out of wedlock"; and to make provision for the   recognition of customary unions concluded according to indigenous law or custom and of marriages solemnised or concluded according to the tenets of any religion; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1992, so as to further regulate the registration of births; to regulate the registration of deaths where a medical practitioner is not available to certify the cause of death; to further regulate the publishing of the alteration of forenames or surnames; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <description><![CDATA[  To amend the Child Care Act, 1983, so as to amend, insert or delete certain definitions; to provide for legal representation for children; to shift the focus from the unable or unfit parent to the child in need of care; to further regulate the provisions relating to the adoption of children; to provide for the registration of shelters; to extend the inspection of children's homes and places of care; to further regulate the medical treatment of children; to further regulate the notification in respect of injured children; to provide for the delegation of powers to the provinces; to extend the application of the Act to the former TBVC states and self-governing territories; to repeal certain laws; and to provide for incidental matters.]]></description>
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