Child Welfare Boards

Child Welfare Boards.-(1) The Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, constitute for any area specified in the notification, one or more Child Welfare Boards for exercising the powers and discharging the duties conferred or imposed on such Board in relation to neglected children under this Act.

1. (2) A Board shall consist of a Chairman and such other member as the Government thinks fit to appoint, of whom not less than one shall be a woman; and every such member may be invested with the powers of a judicial magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure, Svt. 1989.
2. (3) After the members of a Board are invested with the powers of a judicial magistrate it shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, Svt. 1989, function as a Bench of such magistrates and shall have all the powers conferred by the Code of Criminal Procedure, Svt. 1989, on a judicial magistrate of the first class in respect of cases under this Act.