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defendant applies for an order that the restriction shall not apply
It is not open to the prosecution
to a report of those proceedings.
to seek publication.
Section 87B provides that, upon commital for trial or
discharge of the accused, as the case may be, the clerk of the court
must, on the day on which the committal proceedings are concluded or
the next day, cause to be displayed in a part of the court house to
which the public have access a notice giving the name, address and age (if known) of the accused, the charge on which he was committed
or discharged and, if committed, the court to which he is committed.
Against the possibility that a court might hold that
publication in accordance with subsection (5) or (6) of section 87A
of a report of committal proceedings, at the end of the trial, was
not a contemporaneous report, clause 6 amends section 13 of the
Defamation Ordinance to provide for it to be so treated if the report
is published as soon as practicable after it has become permissible.
Newspapers and broadcasting authorities will then continue to have
the benefit of the protection afforded to them by section 13 of the
Defamation Ordinance.
Attorney General.
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