Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000
44. After-care
organization.-
The State Government
may, by rules made under this Act, provide-
a.
for
the establishment or recognition of after-care organizations and the functions
that may be performed by them under this Act;
b.
for
a scheme of after-care programme to be followed by such after-care
organizations for the purpose of taking care of juveniles or the children after
they leave special homes, children homes and for the purpose of enabling them
to lead an hones, industrious and useful life;
c.
for
the preparation or submission of a report by the probation officer or any other
officer appointed by that Government in respect of each juvenile or the child
prior to his discharge from a special home, children's home, regarding the
necessity and nature of after-care of such juvenile or of a child, the period
of such after-care, supervision thereof and for the submission of report by the
probation officer or any other officer appointed for the purpose, on the
progress of each juvenile or the child;
d.
for
the standards and the nature of services to be maintained by such after-care
organizations;
e.
for
such other matters as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the
scheme of after-care programme for the juvenile or the child;
Provided that any
rule made under this section shall not provide for such juvenile or child to
stay in the after-care organization for more than three years;
Provided further that
a juvenile or child over seventeen years of age but less than eighteen years of
age would stay in the after-care organization till he attains the age of twenty
years.