Children Act, 1960
4. Child Welfare Boards
(1) The Administrator
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute for any area specified
in the notification, one or more Child Welfare Boards for exercising the powers
and discharging the duties conferred or imposed on such Board in relation to
neglected children under this Act.
(2) A Board shall
consist of a chairman and such other members as the Administrator thinks fit to
appoint, of whom not less than one shall be a woman; and every such member
shall be vested with the powers of a magistrate under the 5[Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1973].
(3) The Board shall
function as a Bench of magistrates and shall have the powers conferred by the 6[Code
of Criminal Procedure, 1973, on a Metropolitan Magistrate or, as the case may
be, a Judicial Magistrate of the first class].