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Article 6 Persons entitled to appear and take part in proceedings under Schedule 1 and exclusion of public

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

Where the court nominated under section 15(1) of the Act (nominating a court to receive evidence) is a magistrates' court, the court may —

(a)

determine who may appear or take part in the proceedings under Schedule 1 to the Act before the court and whether a party to the proceedings is entitled to be legally represented; and

(b)

direct that the public be excluded from those proceedings if it thinks it necessary to do so in the interests of justice.