Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
For section 57 of the principal Act, the: !OlIowing section shall be substituted, namely:- "57. The State Government may direct any child or the juvenile 10 be transferred from any children's home or special home within the State to any other children's home, special home or institution of a like nature or to such instirutions outside the State in consultation with the concerned State Government and with the prior intimation to the Committee or the Board, as the case may be, and such order shall be deemed to be operative for the competent authority of the area to which the child or the juvenile is sent.".