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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 99

1980 NI 5

99.(1) The business of courts of summary jurisdiction shall, so far as is
consistent with the due despatch of business, be arranged in such manner as
may be requisite for separating the hearing or determination of
domestic proceedings from other business.

(2) No person shall be present during the hearing or determination by a
court of summary jurisdiction of any domestic proceedings except

(a)members and officers of the court;

(b)parties to the proceedings before the court, their solicitors and counsel,
witnesses and other persons directly concerned in those proceedings;

(c)solicitors and counsel in attendance for other proceedings;

(d)representatives of newspapers or news agencies; and

(e)any other person who appears to the court to have adequate grounds for
attendance.

(3) For the purposes of taking any evidence of an indecent character in any
domestic proceedings, the court may, if it thinks necessary in the interest of
the administration of justice or of public decency, direct that all or any
persons not being members or officers of the court or parties to the
proceedings, their solicitors or counsel, or other persons directly concerned
in the proceedings, be excluded from the court during the taking of that
evidence.

(4) The powers conferred on a court of summary jurisdiction by this section
shall be in addition and without prejudice to any other powers of the court to
hear proceedings in camera or to exclude a witness until his evidence is
required.

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