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Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015
Chapter I: Preliminary
Chapter II: General Principles of Care and Protection of Children
Chapter III: Juvenile Justice Board
- Section 4: Juvenile Justice Board
- Section 5: Placement of person, who cease to be a child during process of inquiry
- Section 6: Placement of persons, who committed an offence, when person was below the age of eighteen years
- Section 7: Procedure in relation to Board
- Section 8: Powers, functions and responsibilities of the Board
- Section 9: Procedure to be followed by a Magistrate who has not been empowered under this Act
Chapter IV: Procedure in Relation to Children in Conflict with Law
- Section 10: Apprehension of child alleged to be in conflict with law
- Section 11: Role of person in whose charge child in conflict with law is placed
- Section 12: Bail to a person who is apparently a child alleged to be in conflict with law
- Section 13: Information to parents, guardian or probation officer
- Section 14: Inquiry by Board regarding child in conflict with law
- Section 15: Preliminary assessment into heinous offences by Board
- Section 16: Review of pendency of inquiry
- Section 17: Orders regarding a child not found to be in conflict with law
- Section 18: Orders regarding child found to be in conflict with law
- Section 19: Powers of Children's Court
- Section 20: Child attained age of twenty-one years and yet to complete prescribed term of stay in place of safety
- Section 21: Order that may not be passed against a child in conflict with law
- Section 22: Proceeding under Chapter VIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure not to apply against child
- Section 23: No joint proceedings of child in conflict with law and person not a child
- Section 24: Removal of disqualification on the findings of an offence
- Section 25: Special provision in respect of pending cases
- Section 26: Provision with respect of run away child in conflict with law
Chapter V: Child Welfare Committee
Chapter VI: Procedure in Relation to Children In Need of Care and Protection
- Section 31: Production before Committee
- Section 32: Mandatory reporting regarding a child found separated from guardian
- Section 33: Offence of non-reporting
- Section 34: Penalty for non-reporting
- Section 35: Surrender of children
- Section 36: Inquiry
- Section 37: Orders passed regarding a child in need of care and protection
- Section 38: Procedure for declaring a child legally free for adoption
Chapter VII: Rehabilitation and Social Re-Integration
- Section 39: Process of rehabilitation and social re-integration
- Section 40: Restoration of child in need of care and protection
- Section 41: Registration of child care institutions
- Section 42: Penalty for non-registration of child care institutions
- Section 43: Open shelter
- Section 44: Foster care
- Section 45: Sponsorship
- Section 46: After care of children leaving child care institution
- Section 47: Observation homes
- Section 48: Special homes
- Section 49: Place of safety
- Section 50: Children's Home
- Section 51: Fit facility
- Section 52: Fit person
- Section 53: Rehabilitation and re-integration services in institutions registered under this Act and management thereof
- Section 54: Inspection of institutions registered under this Act
- Section 55: Evaluation of functioning of structures
Chapter VIII: Adoption
- Section 56: Adoption
- Section 57: Eligibility of prospective adoptive parents
- Section 58: Procedure for adoption by Indian prospective adoptive parents living in India
- Section 59: Procedure for inter-country adoption of an orphan or abandoned or surrendered child
- Section 60: Procedure for inter-country relative adoption
- Section 61: Court procedure and penalty against payment in consideration of adoption
- Section 62: Additional procedural requirements and documentation
- Section 63: Effect of adoption
- Section 64: Reporting of adoption
- Section 65: Specialised Adoption Agencies
- Section 66: Adoption of children residing in institutions not registered as adoption agencies
- Section 67: State Adoption Resource Agency
- Section 68: Central Adoption Resource Authority
- Section 69: Steering Committee of Authority
- Section 70: Powers of Authority
- Section 71: Annual Report of Authority
- Section 72: Grants by Central Government
- Section 73: Accounts and audit of Authority
Chapter IX: Other Offences Against Children
- Section 74: Prohibition on disclosure of identity of children
- Section 75: Punishment for cruelty to child
- Section 76: Employment of child for begging
- Section 77: Penalty for giving intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug or psychotropic substance to a child
- Section 78: Using a child for vending, peddling, carrying, supplying or smuggling any intoxicating liquor, narcotic drug or psychotropic substance
- Section 79: Exploitation of a child employee
- Section 80: Punitive measures for adoption without following prescribed procedures
- Section 81: Sale and procurement of children for any purpose
- Section 82: Corporal punishment
- Section 83: Use of child by militant groups or other adults
- Section 84: Kidnapping and abduction of child
- Section 85: Offences committed on disabled children
- Section 86: Classification of offences and designated court
- Section 87: Abetment
- Section 88: Alternative punishment
- Section 89: Offence committed by child under this Chapter
Chapter X: Miscellaneous
- Section 90: Attendance of parent or guardian of child
- Section 91: Dispensing with attendance of child
- Section 92: Placement of a child suffering from disease requiring prolonged medical treatment in an approved place
- Section 93: Transfer of a child who is mentally ill or addicted to alcohol or other drugs
- Section 94: Presumption and determination of age
- Section 95: Transfer of a child to place of residence
- Section 96: Transfer of child between Children's Homes, or special homes or fit facility or fit person in different parts of India
- Section 97: Release of a child from an institution
- Section 98: Leave of absence to a child placed in an institution
- Section 99: Reports to be treated as confidential
- Section 100: Protection of action taken in good faith
- Section 101: Appeals
- Section 102: Revision
- Section 103: Procedure in inquiries, appeals and revision proceedings
- Section 104: Power of the Committee or the Board to amend its own orders
- Section 105: Juvenile justice fund
- Section 106: State Child Protection Society and District Child Protection Unit
- Section 107: Child Welfare Police Officer and Special Juvenile Police Unit
- Section 108: Public awareness on provisions of Act
- Section 109: Monitoring of implementation of Act
- Section 110: Power to make rules
- Section 111: Repeal and savings
- Section 112: Power to remove difficulties
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