Under section 8(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, save as…

Section 8(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 provides that, notwithstanding anything in any other law but save as otherwise expressly provided in the Act, the Juvenile Justice Board constituted for a district has the power to deal exclusively with all proceedings under the Act relating to children in conflict with law in its area. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 contains no separate juvenile-jurisdiction provision (formerly s.27 CrPC); proceedings concerning children are governed by the 2015 Act.

The Child Welfare Committee deals with children in need of care and protection, not children in conflict with law. A Court of Session acting as a Children's Court tries a child only where the Board, after a preliminary assessment under section 15 in a heinous offence by a child aged sixteen or above, transfers the trial under section 18(3). The Chief Judicial Magistrate is not the forum the Act designates.