(1) On the commencement of this Act, Government shall, within sixty days, by notification in the office Gazette, establish an Authority to be known as the Sindh Child Protection Authority.
(2) The Authority shall be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power, to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable and may by the said name, sue and be sued.
(3) Government may transfer state land or building, free of cost, to be utilized for the purpose to which the Authority is established.
(4) The headquarter of the Authority shall be at Karachi.

(1) For the purposes of this Act, the Authority shall have powers-
(a) to coordinate and monitor the child protection related issues at the provincial and district level;
(b) to ensure the rights of the children in need of special protection measures;
(c) to support and establish institutional mechanisms for the child protection issues;
(d) to make necessary efforts to enhance and strengthen the existing services of different children welfare institutions;
(e) to set minimum standards for social, rehabilitative, reintegrative and reformatory institution and services and ensure their implementation;
(f) to supervise in the light of minimum standards, the functions of all such institutions established by government or private sector for the special protection measures of the children;
(g) to set minimum standards for all other institutions relating to the children (like educational institutions, orphanages, shelter homes, remand homes, certified school, youthful offender work places, child parks and hospitals etc) and ensure their implementation;
(h) to review laws, propose amendments in the relevant law, wherever necessary, so as to bring those in conformity with the relevant international instruments ratified by Pakistan and to propose new laws;
(i) to recommend development of a Policy and Plan of Action for the children;
(j) to monitor and report on the violation of the national and provincial laws and international instruments and take suitable remedial measures for the protection of the child;
(k) to set up child protection management information system and prepare annual reports;
(l) to mobilize financial resources for programmes relating to special protection of children through provincial, national and international agencies;
(m) to promote and undertake systematic investigation and research on child protection issues;
(n) to initiate through relevant authorities, prosecution of the offenders when children are victim of the offence;
(o) to establish and manage the Fund;
(p) to do such acts as are ancillary and incidental to the above functions;
(q) to investigate or cause investigation, on its own or upon a complaint, into any matter having bearing on the interest of the children; and
(r) any other functions, which may be assigned to it by Government.