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Any document or object referred to as an exhibit

and identified in a written statement admitted in evidence

under this section shall be treated as if it had been

produced as an exhibit and identified in court by the maker

of the statement.

19. At the conclusion of the preparatory hearing the

judge shall order that the jury to be empanelled so that

the trial may proceed before the judge and a jury.

Restrictions on reports of preparatory hearing.

20. (1) No person shall publish in Hong Kong a

written report, or broadcast in Hong Kong a report, of

a preparatory hearing containing any matter other than that

permitted by subsection (5).

(2)

Notwithstanding subsection (1), a judge shall, on

an application by the accused or one of the accused, as the

case may be, order that subsection (1) shall not apply to

reports of that hearing.

(3) If the accused is not represented at a

preparatory hearing by counsel, the judge shall explain to

him the restrictions on reports of the preparatory hearing

imposed by subsection (1) and inform him of his right to

apply to the court for an order removing those

restrictions.

(4) Where a judge has made an order under subsection

(2) removing the restrictions on reports of a preparatory

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