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CMLDCAREAND PROTECTION

section 4

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grievous sexual assault

section

5

marital rape

section

13

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indecent assault

section 16

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violation of person suffering

from mental disorder

section 18

procuration

section 19

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procuring violation by threats

or fraud

section

2

1

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unlawfbl detention in premises.

5. Any offence involving bodily injury to a child.

THIRD SCHEDULE

(Section

7

1)

I.

In each parish, except in those parishes in which a Family Court

has jurisdiction, the Minister shall appoint to a special panel of Justices of

the Peace those Justices whom he may consider to

be

specially qualified to

deal with juvenile cases, and no Justice of the Peace shall be qualified to

sit as a member of a Children's Court unless he is a member of such a

panel.

2.

Subject to the provisions of paragraph 4, a Children's Court shall

be

constituted of a Resident Magistrate

as

chairman, and two Justices of the

Peace, one of whom shall be a woman, and both of whom shall be members

of the panel referred to in paragraph

1

:

Provided that-

(a)

the court shall be deemed to be fully constituted where the chair-

man and only one such Justice of the Peace sit;

(b)

until the panel referred to in paragraph

1

is prepared, the court shall

be constituted of a Resident Magistrate alcne.

3.

Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection

(3)

of section 4 and

subsection

(2)

of section 6 of the Judicam (Family Court) Act, the Minister

may by order specify

as

respects any parish the place or places in which

Children's Courts shall sit.

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