Subs. by $. 2, ibid, for clause (54) (W.e.f: 1-9-2022)_ — THE JUVENILE JUSTICE (CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN) ACT, 2015

2. Subs. by $. 2, ibid, for clause (54) (W.e.f: 1-9-2022)_ 10 maximum imprisonment for a term more than seven years but no minimum imprisonment Or minimum imprisonment of less than seven years is provided:] (55) "special juvenile police unit" means a unit of the police force of a district O city O, as the case may be, any other police unit like railway police, dealing with children and designated as such for handling children under section 107; (56) "special home' means an institution established by State Government or by a voluntary O non-= governmental organisation, registered under section 48, for housing and providing rehabilitative services to children in conflict with law_ who are found, through inquiry, to have committed an offence and are sent to such institution by an order of the Board; (57) "Specialised Adoption Agency"' means an institution established by the State Government by voluntary or non- governmental organisation and recognised under section 65, for housing orphans, abandoned and surrendered children, placed there by order of the Committee, for the purpose of adoption; (58) sponsorship' means provision of supplementary support, financial or otherwise, to the families to meet the medical, educational and developmental needs of the child; (59) State Government in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator of that Union territory appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution; (60) surrendered child" means a child, who is relinquished by the parent O guardian to the Committee, on account of physical, emotional and social factors beyond their control, and declared as such by the Committee; (61) all words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in other Acts shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those Acts. CHAPTER II GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

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