TNAG-0258-FCO40-294-Legislation-relating-to-criminal-procedure-in-Hong-Kong-1971 — Page 91

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Enclosure No. 3.

DIEU

DROI

Legal Supplement No. 1

TO THE

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

Published by Authority

SUP. TO GAZETTE No. 39]

FRIDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER, 1968.

[VOL. CX

HONG KONG

No. 37 OF 1968.

I assent.

L.S.

D. C..C. TRENCH,

Governor.

26th September, 1968.

An Ordinance to amend further the Criminal Procedure Ordinance.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1968 and shall come into opera- tion on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

2. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 121, the following new sections-

"Power to exclude public from criminal courts.

122. (1) Any judge, District Judge or magistrate may, if he considers, it necessary in the interests of justice or public order or security, direct that, save as provided in subsection (3) or with the permission of a public officer acting under his direction, no person shall be in the court in which such judge, District Judge or magistrate sits in the exercise of his criminal *jurisdiction or in the building, or within the curtilage

of the building, in which that court sits.

Short title and commencement.

Addition of new sections 122 and 123. (Cap. 221.)