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Children's Act, 2005 (Act No. 38 of 2005)

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Regulations relating to Children's Courts and International Child Abduction, 2010

Chapter IV : International Child Abduction

29. Response

 

(1) Subject to subregulation (2), a respondent must file and serve on the parties a response to an application within five days, beginning with the date on which the application is served.

 

(2) A High Court may direct a period longer than that provided for in subregulation (1) for service where  the  respondent  has  been made  a  party  if  he  or  she  appears  to  that  Court  to  have  sufficient interest in the welfare of the child.

 

(3) The applicant may, within five days, beginning with the date on which a respondent's response is served on him or her, file and serve a statement in reply.