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Rh the Juvenile Court may from time to time release the child or young person on bail or remand him in a place of detention.

(11) Where the Juvenile Court has received and considered a written report of a probation officer, a welfare officer, a registered medical practitioner or any other person whom the Court thinks fit to provide a report on the child or young person—
 * (a) the child or young person shall be told the substance of any part of the report bearing on his character or conduct which the Court considers to be material to the manner in which he should be dealt with;
 * (b) the parent or guardian, if present, shall be told the substance of any part of the report which the Court considers to be material to the manner in which the child or young person should be dealt with and which has reference to his character or conduct, or the character, conduct, home surroundings, or health of the child or young person; and
 * (c) if the child or young person or his parent or guardian having been told the substance of any part of any such report desires to produce evidence with reference thereto, the Court, if it thinks the evidence material, shall adjourn the proceedings for the production of further evidence and shall, if necessary, require the attendance at the adjourned hearing of the person who made the report.

(12) If in any case the Juvenile Court considers it necessary in the interests of the child or young person, it may require the parent or guardian of the child or young person, as the case may be, to withdraw from the Court.

Presumption as to age

43.—(1) Where, in a charge for an offence triable under this Act, it is alleged that the person by whom the offence was committed was below or had attained any specified age, and he appears to the court to have been at the date of the commission of the alleged offence below or to have attained the specified age, as the case may be, he shall for the purposes of this Act be presumed at that date to have been below or to have attained that age, as the case may be, and any order made