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Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980

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22Restrictions on report of proceedings involving person under 16

For section 169 of the 1975 Act there shall be substituted the following provision—

169Restrictions on report of proceedings involving person under 16.

(1)No newspaper report of any proceedings in a court shall reveal the name, address or school, or include any particulars calculated to lead to the identification, of any person under the age of 16 years concerned in the proceedings, either—

(a)as being a person against or in respect of whom the proceedings are taken ; or

(b)as being a witness therein ;

nor shall any picture which is, or includes, a picture of a person under the age of 16 years so concerned in the proceedings be published in any newspaper in a context relevant to the proceedings :

Provided that, in any case—

(i)where the person is concerned in the proceedings as a witness only and no one against whom the proceedings are taken is under the age of 16 years, the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply unless the court so directs ;

(ii)the court may at any stage of the proceedings if satisfied that it is in the public interest so to do, direct that the requirements of this section (including such requirements as applied by a direction under paragraph (i) above) shall be dispensed with to such extent as the court may specify;

(iii)the Secretary of State may, after completion of the proceedings, if so satisfied by order dispense with the said requirements to such extent as may be specified in the order.

(2)This section shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to sound and television broadcasts as it applies in relation to newspapers.

(3)A person who publishes matter in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500.

(4)In this section, references to a court shall not include a court in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.;

and the same provision shall (with the appropriate section number) be substituted for section 374 of the 1975 Act.

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