"62A. Every State Government shall constitute a Child Protection Unit for the State and, such Units for every District, consisting of such officers and other employees as may be appointed by that Government, 10 take up matters relating to children in need of care and pTOIcction and juveniles in conflict with law with a view to ensure the implementation of this Act including the establishment and maintenance of homes, notification of competent authorities in relation to these children and their rehabilitation and co·ordination with various official and non-.official agencies concerned.".
25. In section 64 of the principal Act,- (/) for the words "may direct", the words "shall direct" shall be substituted;
(iI) the following proviso and Explanation shall be inserted, nameiy:- "Provided that the State Government, or as the case may be the P.oard, may, for any adequate and special reason to be recorded in writing, review the case of a juvenile in conflict with law undergoing a sentence of imprisonment, who has ceased to be so on or before the commencement of this Act, and pass appropriate order in the interest of such juvenile.
up/anatian.-In all cases where a juvenile in conflict with law is undergoing a sentence of imprisonment at any stage on the date of commencement of this Act, his case including the issue of juvenility, shall be deemed to be decided in tenns of clause (I) of section 2 and other provisions contained in this Act and the rules made thereunder, irrespective of the fact that he ceases to be a juvenile on or before such date and accordingly he shall be sent to the special home or a fit institution, as the case may be, for the remainder of the period of the sentence but such sentence shall not in any case exceed the maximum period provided in section 15 of this Act.".
26. In section 68 of the principaIAct,-
(a) in sub-section (1), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:- "Provided that the Central Government may, frame model rules in respect of all or any of the matters with respect to which the State Government may make rules under this section, and where any such model rules havt been framed in respect of any such matter, they shall apply to the State until the rules in respect of that maner is made by the State Government and while making any such rules, so far as is, practicable, they confonn to such model rules.";
(b) in sub-section (2),- (/) in clause (x), afte('the words, lener and brackets "sub-section (2)", the following words, lener and brackets shall be inserted, namely:- "and the manner of registration of institutions under sub-section
(3)";
(i/) after clause (Xii), the following clauge shall be inserted, namely: ;'(.Tiia) rehabilitation mechanism to be resorted to in adoption under subsection (2), notification of guidelines under sub-section (3) a.nd the manner of [ec-ognition of specialised adoption agencies under sub-£ection (I) of section 41;";
(c) sub-section (3) shaH be re-numbered as sub-section (4) thertef, and belore sub-section (4) as so re-numbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted namely:- "(3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be [PAR1I1- &c. I) THE GAZETTE OF lNDlA EXTRAORDINARY laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in onc session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, beiore the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.", MGIPMRND-2474GI(S4}-24-08-2006. • K..N. CHATURVEDI, Secy. 10 the Govl. of India.
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