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CHILD CAREAND PROTECTION
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71.-(1)
The Minister responsible for justice shall cause to be
Conaitution
of, proce-
established courts, to be known as Children's Courts, which
ciurein,and
shall be constituted in accordance with the provisions of the
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Third Schedule and, when so constituted and sitting for the
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purpose of exercising any jurisdiction conferred on them by this
Third
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Schedule.
or any other enactment, shall be deemed to have, subject to the
provisions of this Act, all the powers of a Resident Magistrate's
Court; and the procedure in the Children's Court, subject to the
provisions of this Act, shall be the same as in the Resident
Magistrate's Court.
(2)
The Governor-General may appoint, in respect of
each Children's Court, a clerk and deputy clerk who shall, in
respect of the Children's Court to which they are so appointed,
have all powers and perform all duties which the clerk and
deputy clerk have and perform in respect of a Resident
Magistrate's Court:
Provided that it shall be lawful for any clerk and deputy clerk,
respectively, assigned under section
7
of the Judicature (Family
Court) Act, to exercise the like powers and perform the like
duties as aforesaid in respect of the Children's Court constituted
by virtue of paragraph
4
of the Third Schedule.
(3) Without prejudice to the power to bring before
a
Children's Court by any other means,,any child in need of care
or protection, the attendance of a child or of any other person
before a Children's Court in accordance with the provisions of
this Act may be enforced by the same officers, the same process
and in the same way as the attendance of persons before Justices
of the Peace may be enforced under the provisions of the
Justices of the Peace Jurisdiction Act.
(4)
Children's Court shall sit as often as may be
necessary for the purpose of exercising any jurisdiction
conferred on them by or under this or any other enactment.
(5)
Subject to subsection
(6)'
a Children's Court
shall
sit
in such place or places as may f i im time to time be specified
under paragraph 3 of the Third Schedule as the place or places
in which such court shall sit.
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