(1) A Board or juvenile court shall hold its sittings at such places, on such days and in such manner as may prescribed.
(2) In the enquiry into or trial of a case in which a child is charged with an offence, the court of a magistrate empowered to exercise the powers of a Board or, as the case may be, a juvenile court under section 9, shall, as far as practicable, sit in a different building or room from that in which the ordinary sittings of the court are held or on different days or at different times from those at which the ordinary sitting of the court are held.
No joint trial of child and adult.
Central Act 2 of 1974.
Sittings, etc., of Juvenile Courts or Boards.
Central Act 2 of 1974.
Procedure in inquiries and trials.
10 [Act No.26 of 1979]
14. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, all proceedings in respect of a child pending in a court on the date on which this Act comes into force shall be continued in that court, as if this Act had not been passed and if such court finds that the child has committed an offence, it shall record such finding and, instead of passing any sentence in respect of the child forward the child to the competent court under this Act, which shall pass orders in respect of that child, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, as if it has been satisfied on enquiry under this Act that the child has committed the offence.