Title : Presence of Persons in Juvenile Courts
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1948
Save as provided in this Act, no person shall be present at any sitting of a juvenile court except - (a) the members and officers of the court, (b) the parties to the case before the court and other persons directly concerned in the case including the Police Officers, (c) such other persons as the court specially authorises to be present. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Withdrawal of Persons from Juvenile Courts
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1948
If at any stage during the course of a trial of a case or proceeding, a juvenile court considers it expedient in the interest of the child to direct any person including the parent, guardian or the spouse of the child or the child himself to withdraw, the court shall be entitled to give such direction and thereupon such person shall withdraw. If any person refuses to withdraw, the court may take steps to remove him. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Procedure, Etc. in Relation to Boards and Juvenile Courts
State : Central
Year : 1986
(1) In the event of any difference of opinion among the members of a Board or among the Magistrates of a Juvenile Court, the opinion of the majority shall prevail, but where there is no such majority, the opinion of the Chairman or of the Principal Magistrate as the case may be, shall prevail. (2) A Board or Juvenile Court may act notwithstanding the absence of any member of the Board or, as the case may be, any Magistrate of the Juvenile Court, and no order made by the Board or Juvenile Court shall be invalid by reason only of the absence of any member or Magistrate, as the case may be, during any stage of the proceeding. (3) No person shall be appointed as a member of the Board or as a Magistrate in the Juvenile Court unless he has, in the opinion of the State Government, special..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Procedure in Appealable Summons Cases to Be Followed by Juvenile Courts and Magistrates Courts in Trials of Children
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1948
A juvenile court and in a case in which a child is not being tried jointly with an adult, a Magistrate empowered under section 8 to exercise the powers of a juvenile court shall, as far as practicable and subject to the provisions of this Act, follow the procedure provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure, 18981, for summary trials in summons cases in which an appeals lies. ________________ 1. See now the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974). View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Appearance of Legal Practitioners Before Juvenile Courts
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1948
Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, a legal practitioner shall not be entitled to appear in any case or proceeding before a juvenile court, unless the juvenile court is of opinion that in public interests the appearance of a legal practitioner is necessary in such case or proceeding and authorises, for reasons to be recorded in writing, a legal practitioner to appear in such case or proceeding. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Sittings, Etc. of Juvenile Courts Etc.
State : Maharashtra
Year : 1948
(1) A juvenile court shall hold its sittings at such places, on such days and in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) In the trial of a case in which a child is charged with an offence and is not being tried jointly with an adult a court shall, as far as may be practicable, sit in a different building or room from that in which the ordinary sittings of the court are held, or on different days, or at different times from those at which the ordinary sittings of the court are held. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Special Offences in Respect of Juveniles
State : Central
Year : 1986
(1) Whoever, having the actual charge of, or control over, a juvenile, assaults, abandons, exposes or wilfully neglects the juvenile or causes or procures him to be assaulted, abandoned, exposed or neglected in a manner likely to cause such juvenile unnecessary mental or physical suffering shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both. (2) No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under sub-section (1) unless the complaint is filed with the previous sanction of the State Government or an officer authorised by it in this behalf. Section 42 - Employment of juveniles for begging (1) Whoever employs or uses any juvenile for the purposes of begging or causes any juvenile to beg shall be punishable with..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Transfers Between Juvenile Homes, Etc., Under the Act and Juvenile Homes, Etc., of Like Nature in Different Parts of India
State : Central
Year : 1986
(1) The Government of a State may direct any neglected juvenile or delinquent juvenile to be transferred from any juvenile home or special home within the State to any other juvenile home, special home or institution of a like nature in any other State with the consent of the Government of the State. (2) The Government of a State may, by general or special order, provide for the reception of a juvenile home or special home within the State of a neglected juvenile or delinquent juvenile detained in a juvenile home or special home or institution of a like nature in any other State where the Government of that State makes an order for such transfer, and upon such transfer the provisions of this Act shall apply to such juvenile as if he had been originally ordered to be sent to such..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Order That May Not Be Passed Against Juvenile
State : Central
Year : 2000
Section 16 - Order that may not be passed against juvenile (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force, no juvenile in conflict with law shall be sentenced to death 1 [or imprisonment for any term which may extend to imprisonment for life], or committed to prison in default of payment of fine or in default of furnishing security: Provided that where a juvenile who has attained the age of sixteen years has committed an offence and the Board is satisfied that the offence committed is so serious in nature or that his conduct and behaviour have been such that it would not be in his interest or in the interest of other juvenile in a special home to send him to such special home and that none of the other..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Release and Absence of Juvenile or Child on Placement
State : Central
Year : 2000
Section 59 - Release and absence of juvenile or child on placement (1) When a juvenile or the child is kept in a children's home or special home and on a report of a probation officer or social worker or of Government or a voluntary organisation, as the case may be, the competent authority may consider, the release of such juvenile or the child permitting him to live with his parent or guardian or under the supervision of any authorised person named in the order, willing to receive and take charge of the juvenile or the child to educate and train him for some useful trade or calling or to look after him for rehabilitation. (2) The competent authority may also permit leave of absence to any juvenile or the child, to allow him, on special occasions like..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section