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CHILD CAREAND PROTECTION
standing that it is discovered that the person in question is not a
child.
(2) Where a Children's Court has remanded a child for
information to be obtained with respect to that child or for
special observation, any Children's Court sitting in the same
parish or place-
(a) may in the child's absence extend the period of
remand, so, however, that the child appears before a
court at least once in every seven days;
(b)
when the required information has been obtained, may,
subject to any right of appeal provided by this Act,
deal with the matter finally.
(3)
Where the court by which a child was originally
remanded has recorded a finding that the child is guilty of an
offence charged, it shall not be necessary for any court which
subsequently deals with that child under this section to hear
evidence as to the commission of that affence, except in so far
as may be considered that such evidence will assist the court in
determining the manner in which the child should be dealt with.
74.
Where under the provisions of this Act, a child is tried
before any court which is not a Children's Court, then such
court shall, in relation to that child, have all the powers of a
Children's Court.
75.-41)
Any court by or before which a child is found guilty
of an offence other than murder may, if it thinks fit, remit the
case to a Children's Court acting for the place where the
offender was committed for trial, or, if he was not committed for
trial, to a Children's Court acting either for the same place as the
remitting court or for the place in which the offender resides.
(2) Where any such case is so remitted, the offender shall
be brought before a Children's Court accordingly, and that court
may deal with him in any way in which it might have dealt with
him if he had been tried and found guilty by that court.
Court other
than Chil-
dren's Court
to have
powers of
Children's
Court.
Power of
other courts
to remit
child offen-
ders to
Children's
Court.
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