law: Children Act, 1960
  5. Children’s courts
  (1) Notwithstanding
  
  anything Contained in the 5[Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973], the
  
  Administrator may, by notification in the Official 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 in relation to delinquent children under this Act.
   7  [(2) A children's court
  
  shall consist of such number of Metropolitan Magistrates or Judicial
  
  Magistrates of the first class, as the case, may be, forming a Bench as the
  
  Administrator thinks fit to appoint, of whom one shall be designated as the
  
  principal magistrate; and every such Bench shall have the powers conferred by
  
  the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, on a Metropolitan Magistrate or, as the
  
  case may be, a Judicial Magistrate of the first class.
  (3) Every children's
  
  court shall be assisted by a panel of two honorary social workers possessing
  
  such qualifications as may be prescribed, of whom at least one shall be a
  
  woman, and such panel shall be appointed by the Administrator.]