PART IIPROVISIONS AS TO OFFENCES, SENTENCES, PENALTIES AND COSTS
Offences
29Prohibition on taking photographs, etc., in court.
1
No person shall—
a
take or attempt to take in any court any photograph, or with a view to publication make or attempt to make in any court any portrait or sketch of any person, being a judge of the court or a juror or a witness in or a party to any proceedings before the court, whether civil or criminal; or
b
publish any photograph, portrait or sketch taken or made in contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section or any reproduction of such photograph, portrait or sketch;
and if any person acts in contravention of this section he shall, on summary conviction, be liable in respect of each offence to a fine not exceedingF1 level 3 on the standard scale.
2
For the purposes of this section—
F2a
the expression “court” means any court of justice (including the court of a coroner), apart from the Supreme Court;
b
the expression “judge” includes recorder, registrar, resident magistrate, justice of the peace sitting out of petty sessions and coroner;
c
a photograph, portrait or sketch shall be deemed to be a photograph, portrait or sketch taken or made in court if it is taken or made in the court-room or in the building or in the precincts of the building in which the court is held, or if it is a photograph, portrait or sketch taken or made of the person while he is entering or leaving the court-room or any such building or precincts as aforesaid.