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Amendment of section 86.

(Cap. 221.)

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the warning required by subsection (4) the clerk of the

court shall give to him written notice of the provisions

of section 65D of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance."

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4. Section 86 of the principal Ordinance is amended in

subsection (1) by inserting, after "the recognizances of bail (if any),”,

the following -

"where the magistrate has made an order under subsection

(2) of section 87A, a statement to that effect,"

Addition of new sections 87A and 87B.

5.

Part III of the principal Ordinance is amended by adding,

after section 87, the following new sections

"Restrictions on reports of committal proceedings. 1967, c. 80, ss. 3 & 36. S.I. 1963/ 1920, г.2.

87A. (1) No person shall publish in the Colony

a written report, or broadcast in the Colony a report,

of any committal proceedings in the Colony containing

any matter other than that permitted by subsection (7).

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a magistrate

shall, on an application for the purpose made with

reference to any committal proceedings by the accused

or one of the accused, as the case may be, order that

subsection (1) shall not apply to reports of those

proceedings, and any such order shall be entered in the

Magistrate's Case Register.

(3) If the accused is not represented at any

committal proceedings by counsel or by a solicitor, the