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PART B -- CHILDREN'S COURTS
1. ***[Omitted].
2. Selection of Magistrate to try children cases: Trial to be held at a different place.-- The Government *[have] decided that each *[Sessions Judge or District Magistrate as the case may be] should select one of the Magistrates subordinate to him whether honorary or stipendiary, before whom all cases concerning children should be brought. The trial of children should be held, if possible, at a different place from the Court in which cases are generally heard. If this is impossible these cases should be heard at a different time from other cases. In the case of outlying sub-divisions and tahsils, children will normally be brought before the Magistrate having jurisdiction in the place, who will hear their cases in the same way as the Magistrate selected at head-quarters.
3. Simple language of trial.-- The language used at the trial of youthful offender should be as simple as possible, and legal phraseology should be reduced to the bare necessities.
4. Outsiders should not be allowed at the trial.-- If the case has to be heard in the Magistrate's Court room (no other place being available), then the room should be cleared of all outsiders, only those actually concerned with the particular case being admitted.
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