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The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981OrderJustice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015s. 24(5)(a)Sch. 8 para. 5s. 106(2)The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981art. 29AJustice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015s. 7(2)Sch. 8 para. 4s. 106(2)The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981art. 29AJustice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015s. 7(6)Sch. 8 para. 4s. 106(2)The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981art. 34(1A)-(1E)Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015s. 8(2)Sch. 8 para. 4s. 106(2)The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch. 6 para. 125Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011Sch. 5s. 1(2) 52(1) 53 54s. 59art. 2(b)Sch 2The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch. 6 para. 128-130Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011Sch. 3 Pt. 2s. 40(1)art. 2Sch.The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch. 6 Pt. 3 para. 170The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007Sch. 8 Pt. 1art. 2Sch.The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch. 6 para. 144Police and Justice Act 2006Sch. 15 Pt. 4s. 53(1)The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981art. 140(2ZA)Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016Sch. 10 para. 16s. 285-287s. 307(2)The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch. 6 para. 21Crime and Courts Act 2013Sch. 11 para. 210s. 61(3)art. 2(e)art. 3The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch. 6 para. 25Crime and Courts Act 2013Sch. 11 para. 210s. 61(3)art. 2(e)art. 3The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981InstrumentCriminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994s. 91(3)The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981InstrumentThe Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1994arts.3(4) 25The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981InstrumentThe Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1994art.3(5) Sch.1The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981InstrumentThe Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1994art.5(2)The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch.6 Pt.I para.5The Children (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1995art.15 Sch.The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch.6 Pt.I paras.18 19Merchant Shipping Act 1995s. 314(1) Sch.12The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981OrderThe International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance 2007) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018reg. 8reg. 1The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981ActCriminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996s.79 Sch.4 para 30The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981ActCriminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 s.79 Sch.4 para 30 The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981Sch. 6 paras. 42 43Competition Act 1998Sch. 12 para. 5 Sch. 14 Pt. 2s. 76(3)
PART VIIICIVIL PROCEEDINGS UPON COMPLAINT<Emphasis>Domestic proceedings</Emphasis>Sitting of court for domestic proceedings891The business of courts of summary jurisdiction shall, so far as is consistent with the due despatch of business, be arranged in such manner as may be requisite for separating the hearing or determination of domestic proceedings from other business.2No person shall be present during the hearing or determination by a court of summary jurisdiction of any domestic proceedings except—amembers and officers of the court;bparties to the proceedings before the court, their solicitors and counsel, witnesses and other persons directly concerned in those proceedings;csolicitors and counsel in attendance for other proceedings;drepresentatives of newspapers or news agencies; andeany other person who appears to the court to have adequate grounds for attendance.3For the purposes of taking any evidence of an indecent character in any domestic proceedings, the court may, if it thinks necessary in the interest of the administration of justice or of public decency, direct that all or any persons not being members or officers of the court or parties to the proceedings, their solicitors or counsel, or other persons directly concerned in the proceedings, be excluded from the court during the taking of that evidence.4The powers conferred on a court of summary jurisdiction by this Article shall be in addition and without prejudice to any other powers of the court to hear proceedings in camera or to exclude a witness until his evidence is required.Pt. VIII (arts. 77-90) applied (1.10.2009) by Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (c. 28), ss. 58, 100(5), Sch. 5 paras. 5(3), 10(2) (with s. 101(2)); S.I. 2009/1493, art. 2(a)(c)Pt. VIII (arts. 77-90) applied (prosp.) by Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 12), ss. 147(4), 185(1)Pt. VIII referred to by S.I. 1996/3158 (N.I.), art. 76D(4)(b) (as inserted (1.10.2016) by Licensing of Pavement Cafs Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 9), s. 32(1), Sch. para. 2; S.R. 2016/126, art. 2)