Kathmandu, March 1
The government has designated registrar of each district court as authority to carry out investigation into cases related to juvenile delinquency and inspection of observation chamber. A registrar is also has to prepare reports on implementation status of the orders by juvenile bench.
The provision was made in accordance with a decision of February 24 meeting of the Council of Ministers. According to the Cabinet decision made public by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the provision comes into force as per Section 79 of the Children Act-2018.
“Until a probation authority is appointed, Government of Nepal may designate any government authority to act as the probation authority. Functions, duties, power and terms and conditions of service and other provisions relating to the probation authority shall be as prescribed,” reads the section.
The act has a provision of a juvenile court to conduct proceeding, hearing and adjudication of offences committed by children. Juvenile bench consists of district judge, a social service provider and a child psychologist or a child specialist.
If a child under the age of 10 years is found to have committed an offence, no punishment shall be handed down to him/her.
A child aged between 10 and 14 years shall be released by convincing him/her not to repeat such act in future. In the case of involvement in an offence liable to jail sentence, concerned child aged
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