Section 6: Procedure in Juvenile Court
consolidated text (as at 1998). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
6. Procedure in Juvenile Court
(1) Juvenile Courts shall sit as often as may be necessary for the purpose
of exercising any jurisdiction conferred on them by or under this Act or any
other enactment.
(2) A Juvenile Court shall, subject to subsection (3), sit either in a different building or room from that in which sittings of Courts, other than Juvenile Courts, are held, or on different days from those on which sittings of
such other Courts are held.
(3) No person shall be present at any sitting of a Juvenile Court except—
(a) members and officers of the Court;
(b) parties to the case before Court, their attorneys, barristers, witnesses and other persons directly concerned in that case;
(c) bona fide representatives of the newspapers or news agencies;
(d) such other persons as the Court may specially authorise to be
present.
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