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Rule 6.7 Restrictions on reports of proceedings involving childrenI1

Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Any direction made by a court under subsection (3)(a) (person under 16 is a witness only) of section 47 (restriction on report of proceedings involving children) of the Act of 1995 shall specify the person in respect of whom the direction is made.

(2)

Any direction made by a court under subsection (3)(b) of section 47 of the Act of 1995 (restrictions dispensed with) shall specify the person in respect of whom the direction is made and the extent to which the provisions of the section are dispensed with in relation to that person.

(3)

Any such direction shall be pronounced in open court and its terms shall be recorded in the record of proceedings; and the direction as so recorded shall be authenticated by the signature of the clerk of court.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 2 rule 6.7 in force at 1.4.1996, see para. 1(1)