(6) When a child who has been brought before a juvenile court and is found to be suffering from
serious illness, whether physical or mental, and requires treatment, the court shall send such child to a
hospital or a medical institution where treatment shall be given to the child at the expense of the
State.
7. Determination of age. If a question arises as to whether a person before it is a child for the
purposes of this Ordinance, the juvenile court shall record a finding after such inquiry which shall
include a medical report for determination of the age of the child.
8. Prohibition to publish proceedings of cases. Unless the juvenile court specifically authorizes,
the court proceedings shall not be published in any newspaper, magazine or journal in any form which
may disclose the name, address, school or any identification or particulars calculated to lead directly
or indirectly to the identification of such child nor shall any picture of the child be published.
9. Probation Officer.—(1) The Probation Officer shall assist the juvenile court by making a
report on the child's character, educational, social and moral background.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) the report of the Probation Officer submitted to the juvenile court
shall be treated as confidential.
(3) The juvenile court may, if it so thinks fit, communicate the substance of the report to the child
or his guardian and, where anyone of them disputes the contents or views contained therein, the
juvenile court may give such child or, as the case may be, guardian an opportunity of producing such
evidence as may be relevant to the matter stated in the report.
10. Arrest and bail.—(1) Where a child is arrested for commission of an offence, the officer
incharge of the police station in which the child is detained shall, as soon as may be inform—
(a) the guardian of the child, if he can be found, of such arrest and inform him of the time,
date and name of the juvenile court before which the child shall be produced; and
(b) the concerned Probation Officer to enable him to obtain such information about the child
and other material circumstances which may be of assistance to the juvenile court for
making inquiry.
(2) Where a child accused of a nonbailable offence is arrested, he shall, without any delay and in
no case later than twenty four hours from such arrest, be produced before the juvenile court.
(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of the Code, a child accused of a bailable offence shall, if
already not released under section 496 of Code, be released by the juvenile court on bail, with or
without surety, unless it appears that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the release of the
child shall bring him into association with any criminal or expose the child to any danger, in which
case, the child shall be placed under the custody of a Probation Officer or a suitable person or
institution dealing with the welfare of the children if parent or guardian of the child is not present, but
shall not under any circumstances be kept in a police station or jail in such cases.
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