Act No. 56 of 1988 giving extraordinary powers to the President to issue a Minor's Code and to regulate other matters, 28 November 1988
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 115
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289151 Document Number: 380128
This Act gives extraordinary powers to the President of Colombia for a period of a year in which to issue a Minor's Code and to regulate the following matters among others: 1) the fundamental principles guiding the regulations for the protection of minors; 2) the definition of irregular situations in which minors find themselves; 3) the determination of ways minors finding themselves in these situations are to be protected; 4) the creation and organization of a regime of permanent family offices to take care of requests to protect minors; 5) the modification of substantive rules relating to adoption and the abolition of simple adoption; 6) the regulation of the obligation to support minors; 7) the determination of the function and responsibility of media in protecting the minor in moral and psychological terms; 8) the establishment of the jurisdiction of "Family Defenders" and the procedures they should follow to protect minors; 9) the establishment of the objectives, functions and responsibilities of the Minors' Police; 10) the establishment of protection for working minors; 11) the creation of an agency to oversee the activities of judges and persons defending minors; 12) the modification of the Penal Code to identify new crimes relating to the traffic in and exploitation of minors and failure to support minors and concealment of property; and 13) the modification of other laws relating to minors. The Act also establishes a Government Advisory Commission to help the President.