PROCEEDINGS INVOLVING CHILDREN OR YOUNG PERSONS
Definitions
‘the Act’ means the Children Act, 2001 (No 24 of 2001);
‘the court’ means the Children Court.
(2) Subject to the Act, a Judge may adjourn business from a sitting of the District Court to a sitting of the Children Court for the same district and vice versa.
(3) Nothing in this Order shall prevent the court, subject to the Act, from making any order when sitting as the Children Court which it could make at a sitting of the court sitting as the District Court and vice versa.
(4) Any reference in any Form to the ‘District Court’ instead of the ‘Children Court’ shall be taken as a reference to the Children Court and shall not invalidate such Form.
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