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CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION
(6)
Where a child-
(a) who has not attained the age of fourteen years is
charged with any offence; or
(b)
who has attained the age of fourteen years is charged
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with any offence other than an offence specified in the
Schedule
Fourth Schedule,
the charge shall, subject to any right of appeal provided by this
or any other enactment, finally be disposed of by a Children's
Court, or if the charge is heard before a court of summary
jurisdiction that is not a Children's Court, by that court of
summary jurisdiction, without prejudice, however, to the
provisions of section 75.
(7) Where a child who has attained the age of fourteen
years is charged with
an
offence specified in the Fourth
Schedule-
(a) proceedings for the child's committal for trial shall,
subject to subsection (I), be heard in a Children's
Court; and
(b)
if, on the termination of those proceedings, the court is
satisfied that the child should be committed for trial,
the court shall so commit the child and shall bind such
child and the witnesses, by recognizance to appear at
the court to which such child is committed.
(8)
No direction, whether contained in this or in any
other enactment, that a charge shall be brought before a
Children's Court shall be construed as restricting the powers of
any Resident Magistrate or Justice of the Peace to entertain an
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application for bail or for a remand and to hear such evidence
as may be necessary for that purpose.
as
73.-(1)
A
Children's Court sitting for the purpose of hearing
to powers of
Children's
a charge against, or an application relating to, a person who is
court.
believed to be a child may, if it thinks fit, proceed with the
hearing and determination of the charge or application notwith-
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