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Where an inquiry has bcen inihred against a child and during the coursz of a,& lo such inquiry the child cases to be such, then, notwithstanding anything cantained or in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force, the inquiw may be a whocontinued and orders may be made in respect of such person as if suchperjon ccagbd had c~ntinued to be a child. to be a child. CHAPTER I1 UlUd '. 4. (1) The Goverament may, by notfication, constitute for any area sipzdied mKm the aotilhtion one or mark Child Welfare Boards for exercising the pow& .and Bwdas. discharging the duties coderred or imposed on such Board in relation to neglected children under t h i ~ Act and Government also alter the territorial jurisdiction of the B d . (2) A Boad shallconsist of a Chairman and such other members as rhe Government thinks fit to appoint, of whom at -least onc shall, as far as practi@!e, be a woman and every such member shallbe vested with the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of the first ckss under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. , - . , , . Proccdura,