Cap. 569 Art. 3Director responsible for child protection.

(1) There shall be a Director having responsibility to protect children at risk.

(2) There shall also be other officers of the Director who shall exercise and perform all such powers, functions and duties as may be delegated or assigned to them by the Director.

(3) In the exercise and performance of the powers, functions and duties delegated or assigned to them as aforesaid, the officers of the Director shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same obligations and enjoy the same protection and privileges as are by law imposed on or given to the Director.

(4) The office of the Director shall be a body corporate having a distinct legal personality and shall be capable of entering into contracts, of employing personnel, of acquiring, holding and disposing of any kind of property for the purposes of its operations and of suing and of being sued and of doing all such things and of entering into all such transactions as are incidental or conducive to the performance of its functions under this Act.