summary

to provide for children’s right to privacy and protection of information;
to further provide for the rights of unmarried fathers; to extend the children’s court jurisdiction;
to further provide for funding of early childhood development programmes;
to provide for the designation and functions for a Registrar of the National Child Protection Register;
to further provide for the care of abandoned or orphaned children and additional matters that may be regulated;
to further provide for rules relating to care and protection proceedings;
to further provide for medical testing of children in need of care and protection or adoption;
to provide for additional matters relating to children in alternative care;
to further provide for matters relating to adoption and inter-country adoption;
to further provide for the hearing of child abduction matters;
to further provide for matters relating to surrogate motherhood; and
to provide for matters connected therewith.