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Children's courts.— (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898), the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, constitute for any area specified in the notification, one or more children's courts for exercising the powers and discharging the duties conferred or imposed on such court under this Act. (2) A children's court shall consist of such number of Magistrates forming a Bench as the Government think fit to appoint, of whom one shall be designated as the senior magistrate and not less than one shall be a woman; and every such Bench shall have the powers conferred 7 by the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898), on a Magistrate of the first class.