law: Children Act, 1960
  6. Procedure, etc., in relation to Boards and children’s
  
  courts
  (1) In the event of
  
  any difference of opinion among the members of a Board or among the magistrates
  
  of a children's court, the opinion of the majority shall prevail, but where
  
  there is no such majority, the opinion of the chairman or of the 8[principal
  
  magistrate], as the case may be, shall prevail.
  (2) A Board or
  
  children’s court may act notwithstanding the absence of any member of the Board
  
  or, as the case may be, any magistrate of the children's court, and no order
  
  made by the Board or children’s court shall be invalid by reason only of the
  
  absence of any member or magistrate, as the case may be, during any stage of
  
  the proceeding.
  (3) No person shall be
  
  appointed as a member of the Board or as a magistrate in the children's court
  
  unless he has, in the opinion of the Administrator, special knowledge of child
  
  psychology and child welfare.