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Article 36 Notice of complaint and restrictions on adjudicating justice.

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(1)

A parent or guardian who applies by complaint to a juvenile court under section 3 of the Act of 1963 after the failure or refusal of the local authority to bring a person before the court, shall send a notice specifying the time and place fixed for the hearing of the complaint to any other person who, being a parent of that child or young person, lives apart from the applicant and if any such person appears at the hearing he shall be entitled to be heard.

(2)

A justice who sits as a member of a juvenile court which hears such a complaint as aforesaid shall not sit as a member of the court before which that child or young person appears or is brought as a result of an order directed to the local authority in respect of him under the said section 3.