CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) Ord. No. 37/68.
apprehensive as to what may happen to him or to any member of his family or a friend or to his property or business if he gives evidence in open court,
the court may order that the whole of the proceedings before it in respect of any offence shall take place in a closed court.
(2) In any case, whether or not proceedings are taking place in a closed court pursuant to an order under subsection (1), if the court is satisfied that a witness is apprehensive as to what may happen to him or to any member of his family or a friend or to his property or business in consequence of his giving evidence, the court shall not permit any question to be put to the witness or any other witness if the answer thereto would lead, or would tend to lead, to disclosure of the name or address of the first men- tioned witness, but the court may require such witness to record his name and address in writing and deliver the same into the custody of the court.
(3) In this section "court" includes any District Court or any magistrate's court.".
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 25th day of September, 1968, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
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D. BARTON, Deputy Clerk of Councils.