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Orders that may not be passed agamst delmquent chzldren -(1) Notwithstandmg anythmg to the contrary con- tamed m any other law for the time bemg m force, no delin- quent child shall be sentenced to death or imprisonment, or committed to pnson m default of payment of fine or in default of furmshmg security. ~J Provided that where a child who has attained the age of fourteen years has committed an offence and the children's court IS satisfied that the offence committed IS of so seriOus a nature or that his conduct and behaviour have been such that It would not be in his interest or m the mterest of other children m a special school to send him to such special school and that none of the other l'Tl.easures provided under this Act IS suitable or sufficient, the children's court may order the delmquent child to be kept m safe custody m such place and manner as 1t thmks fit and shall report the case for the orders of the Government (2) On receipt of a report from a children's court, under sub-sectiOn (1), the Government may make such arrangement m respect of the child as they deem proper and may order such delinquent child to be detamed at such place and on such conditiOns as they think rit . Prov1ded that the penod of detention so ordered shall not exceed the maximum penod of Imprisonment to which th~ child could have been sentenced for the offence comm1tted 19 22 Proceedmg under Chapter VIII of the Cnmina~ Procedure Code not competent agamst chtld.-Notw1thstandmg anythmg to the contrary contained m the Code of Cnminal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898), no proceedmg shall be mst1tuted and no order shall be passed against a ch1ld under V Chapter VIII of the said Code 23 No 70mt trwl of ch1ld and person not a child- (1) Notw1thstandmg anything contamed in section 239 of the Code of Crtmmal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898) or in any other law for the tlme being m force, no ch1ld shall' be charged w1th or tried for any offence together w1th a person who is not a child. (2) If a child 1s accused of an offence for wh1ch, under section 239 of the Code of Cnminal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898) or any other law for the time being in force, such ch1ld and any person who 1s not a child would, but for the prohibition contained m sub-section (1), have been charged and tned together, the court takmg cogmzance of that offence :.. shall direct separ.ate trials of the child and the other person. '