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[Cites 0, Cited by 0] [Section 56] [Entire Act]

State of Jammu-Kashmir - Subsection

Section 56(1) in The Jammu And Kashmir Juvenile Justice (Care And Protection Of Children) Act, 2013

(1)Where it appears to the competent authority that any juvenile or child kept in a special home or an observation home or a children's home or a shelter home or in an institution in pursuance of the Act, is a mentally ill person or addicted to alcohol or other drugs which lead to behavioural changes in a person, the competent authority may order his removal to a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home in accordance with the provisions of the Mental Health Act, 1987 (Central Act No. 14 of 1987) or the rule made there under.