Juvenile Courts

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (1 of 1974), the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute for any area specified in the notification, one or more juvenile courts for exercising the powers and discharging the duties conferred or imposed on such court in relation to children under this Act. (2) Every juvenile court shall consist :— (i) a Judicial Magistrate of the 1st Class to be appointed by the Government as Presiding Officer; and (ii) two social workers one of whom may be a woman. NOTE: For the purpose of clause (ii) above a penal of social workers is to be maintained by State Government.