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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 6

Committal proceedings to be in open court.

6.(1) The place in which a magistrates' court is sitting to conduct a
preliminary investigation under the Act of 1964 or a preliminary enquiry under
this Act shall be deemed to be an open court except where

(a)any statutory provision contains an express provision to the contrary; or

(b)it appears to the court that the ends of justice would not be served by
sitting in open court for the whole or any part of the investigation or
enquiry.

Subs.(2) substitutes s.42(2) of 1964 c.21 (NI)

(3) In this section "statutory provision" has the meaning assigned to it by
section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.

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