JJJ Rules 18अध्याय V · Procedure in relation to children in need of care and Protection

धारा 18 · Production before the Committee

(1)

Any child in need of care and protection shall be produced before the Committee during the working hours at its place of sitting and beyond working hours before the member as per the duty roster:Provided that where the child cannot be produced before the Committee, the Committee shall reach out to the child where the child is located.

(2)

Whoever produces the child before the Committee shall make a report in Form 17 containing the particulars of the child as well as the circumstances in which the child was received or found.

(3)

In case of a child less than two years of age, who is medically unfit, the person or the organisation who comes in contact with the child in need of care and protection shall send a written report along with the photograph of the child to the Committee within twenty-four hours and produce the child before the Committee as soon as the child is medically fit along with a medical certificate to that effect.

(4)

The Committee after interaction with the child may issue directions for placing the child with the parent or guardian or Children's Home, where such Home is available in the vicinity of the Committee before which the child is produced, and in the absence of such Home, to direct the placing of the child in safe custody of a fit person or a fit facility.

(5)

The Committee or the member on duty shall issue the order for placing the child in Children's Home in Form 18.

(6)

The Committee or the member on duty shall order immediate medical examination of the child produced before the Committee or the member on duty, if such examination is needed.

(7)

In the case of abandoned or lost or orphaned child, the Committee, before passing an order granting interim custody of the child pending inquiry, shall see that, the information regarding such child is uploaded on a designated portal.

(8)

The Committee may, while making an order in Form 19 for placing a child under the care of a parent, guardian or fit person, pending inquiry or at the time of restoration, as the case may be, direct such parent, guardian or fit person to enter into an undertaking in Form 20.

(9)

Whenever the Committee orders a child to be kept in an institution, it shall forward to the Person-in-charge of such institution, a copy of the order of short term placement pending inquiry in Form 18 with particulars of the Child Care Institution and parents or guardian and previous record. A copy of such order shall also be forwarded to the District Child Protection Unit.

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