law: Children Act, 1960
  4. Child Welfare Boards
  (1) The Administrator
  
  may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute for any area specified
  
  in the notification, one or more Child Welfare Boards for exercising the powers
  
  and discharging the duties conferred or imposed on such Board in relation to
  
  neglected children under this Act.
  (2) A Board shall
  
  consist of a chairman and such other members as the Administrator thinks fit to
  
  appoint, of whom not less than one shall be a woman; and every such member
  
  shall be vested with the powers of a magistrate under the 5[Code of
  
  Criminal Procedure, 1973].
  (3) The Board shall
  
  function as a Bench of magistrates and shall have the powers conferred by the 6[Code
  
  of Criminal Procedure, 1973, on a Metropolitan Magistrate or, as the case may
  
  be, a Judicial Magistrate of the first class].