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(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of m: Criminal Procedure, 1973 (1 of 1974), the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute for any area specified in the notification, one or more juveni 1e courts for exercising the powers and dischazging the duties conferred or imposed on such court in re- lation to children under- this Act. (2) Every juvenile court shall consist :— (i) a Judicial Magistrate of the 1st Class to be appointed by the Government as Presiding Oflicer ; and (ii) two social wcrkers one of whom may be a woman. NOTE: For the purgose of clause (ii) above a penal of socialworkers is to be maintained by State Government. POW“? 9f