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an order of a court or who is otherwise required for the purposes of any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, to be in any such court or any such building or to any one person representing a newspaper or news agency.
(4) Any person who contravenes any direction of a judge, District Judge or magistrate under subsection (1) or of the Chief Justice under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months and may be forcibly removed by any police officer from the court or building or the curtilage of the building, as the case may be.
(5) Notwithstanding any other law, the exclusion of persons from any court or any building by or in accordance with a direction of a judge, District Judge or magistrate under subsection (1) or of the Chief Justice under subsection (2) shall not affect the validity of the proceedings of that court or of any court which sits in that building as the case may be.
(6) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall derogate from or affect the power of any judge, District Judge or magistrate to order the exclusion from the court in which he sits of members of the public where the proper administration of justice so requires.
(7) In this section "court" includes the District Court and a magistrate. (Amended, 35 of 1976, s. 14)
(Added, 37 of 1968, s. 2)
Criminal proceedings may be held in camera and non-disclosure of identity of witnesses in certain cases
123. (1) Notwithstanding any other law-
(a) if it appears to a court that it is or may be expedient so to do in the interests of justice or public order or security or for the safety or well-being of a witness or any other person; or
(b) if a court is satisfied on the information of any person or otherwise 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 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 where a court may make an order under subsection (1), the court may, whether or not it makes an order under that subsection, order that no question shall be put to any specified witness in the proceedings before it if the answer thereto would lead, or tend to lead, to disclosure of the name or address of any witness in the proceedings; but the court may require any such witness to record the name and address of a witness in the proceedings in writing and to deliver it into the custody of the court. (Replaced, 35 of 1976, s. 15)
(3) In this section "court" includes the District Court and a magistrate. (Amended, 35 of 1976, s. 15)
(Added, 37 of 1968, s. 2)
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an order of a court or who is otherwise required for the purposes of any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, to be in any such court or any such building or to any one person representing a newspaper or news agency.
(4) Any person who contravenes any direction of a judge, District Judge or magistrate under subsection (1) or of the Chief Justice under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months and may be forcibly removed by any police officer from the court or building or the curtilage of the building, as the case may be.
(5) Notwithstanding any other law, the exclusion of persons from any court or any building by or in accordance with a direction of a judge, District Judge or magistrate under subsection (1) or of the Chief Justice under subsection (2) shall not affect the validity of the proceedings of that court or of any court which sits in that building as the case may be.
(6) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall derogate from or affect the power of any judge, District Judge or magistrate to order the exclusion from the court in which he sits of members of the public where the proper administration of justice so requires.
(7) In this section "court" includes the District Court and a magistrate. (Amended, 35 of 1976, s. 14)
(Added, 37 of 1968, s. 2)
Criminal proceedings may be held in camera and non-disclosure of identity of witnesses in certain cases
123. (1) Notwithstanding any other law-
(a) if it appears to a court that it is or may be expedient so to do in the interests of justice or public order or security or for the safety or well-being of a witness or any other person; or
(b) if a court is satisfied on the information of any person or otherwise 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 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 where a court may make an order under subsection (1), the court may, whether or not it makes an order under that subsection, order that no question shall be put to any specified witness in the proceedings before it if the answer thereto would lead, or tend to lead, to disclosure of the name or address of any witness in the proceedings; but the court may require any such witness to record the name and address of a witness in the proceedings in writing and to deliver it into the custody of the court. (Replaced, 35 of 1976, s. 15)
(3) In this section "court" includes the District Court and a magistrate. (Amended, 35 of 1976, s. 15)
(Added, 37 of 1968, s. 2)
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