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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">use of a live link would enable him to participate more effectively in the proceedings as a witness (whether by improving the quality of his evidence or otherwise).</Addition>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">5</Addition>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">Where the accused has attained the age of 18 at that time, the conditions are that—</Addition>
</Text>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">a</Addition>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">he suffers from a mental disorder (within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983) or otherwise has a significant impairment of intelligence and social function,</Addition>
</Text>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">he is for that reason unable to participate effectively in the proceedings as a witness giving oral evidence in court, and</Addition>
</Text>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">c</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">use of a live link would enable him to participate more effectively in the proceedings as a witness (whether by improving the quality of his evidence or otherwise).</Addition>
</Text>
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</P2>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">6</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">While a live link direction has effect the accused may not give oral evidence before the court in the proceedings otherwise than through a live link.</Addition>
</Text>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">7</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">The court may discharge a live link direction at any time before or during any hearing to which it applies if it appears to the court to be in the interests of justice to do so (but this does not affect the power to give a further live link direction in relation to the accused).</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">The court may exercise this power of its own motion or on an application by a party.</Addition>
</Text>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">8</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">The court must state in open court its reasons for—</Addition>
</Text>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">a</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">giving or discharging a live link direction, or</Addition>
</Text>
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</P3>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">b</Addition>
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<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">refusing an application for or for the discharge of a live link direction,</Addition>
</Text>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">and, if it is a magistrates' court, it must cause those reasons to be entered in the register of its proceedings.</Addition>
</Text>
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<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">Section 33A: meaning of “live link”</Addition>
</Title>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">33B</Addition>
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<P1para>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">1</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">In section 33A “</Addition>
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<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">live link</Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">” means an arrangement by which the accused, while absent from the place where the proceedings are being held, is able—</Addition>
</Text>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">a</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">to see and hear a person there, and</Addition>
</Text>
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</P3>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">b</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">to be seen and heard by the persons mentioned in subsection (2),</Addition>
</Text>
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</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">and for this purpose any impairment of eyesight or hearing is to be disregarded.</Addition>
</Text>
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</P2>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">The persons are—</Addition>
</Text>
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<Pnumber>
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</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">the judge or justices (or both) and the jury (if there is one),</Addition>
</Text>
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</P3>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">where there are two or more accused in the proceedings, each of the other accused,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">legal representatives acting in the proceedings, and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/23/section/33B/2/d/2014-10-20" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/23/section/33B/2/d" id="section-33B-2-d">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">d</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">any interpreter or other person appointed by the court to assist the accused.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
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<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">Saving</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/23/section/33C/2014-10-20" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/23/section/33C" id="section-33C">
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<CommentaryRef Ref="key-5001947544a5df99528acaaf59b47187"/>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">33C</Addition>
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<P1para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">Nothing in this Chapter affects—</Addition>
</Text>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">any power of a court to make an order, give directions or give leave of any description in relation to any witness (including an accused), or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
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<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a-1548418475699" CommentaryRef="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a">the operation of any rule of law relating to evidence in criminal proceedings.</Addition>
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</P3para>
</P3>
</P1para>
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<Commentaries>
<Commentary id="key-af01f9421f5e9374414856a231f32d9a" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Ch. 1A inserted (15.1.2007) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/48" id="c8y7vdx93-00007" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2006" Number="48" Title="Police and Justice Act 2006">Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c8y7vdx93-00008" CitationRef="c8y7vdx93-00007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/48/section/47" SectionRef="section-47" Operative="true">ss. 47</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c8y7vdx93-00009" CitationRef="c8y7vdx93-00007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/48/section/53/1" SectionRef="section-53-1">53(1)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2006/3364" id="c8y7vdx93-00010" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2006" Number="3364" Title="The Police and Justice Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2006">S.I. 2006/3364</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c8y7vdx93-00011" CitationRef="c8y7vdx93-00010" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2006/3364/article/2/h" SectionRef="article-2-h">art. 2(h)</CitationSubRef>
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</Para>
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<Commentary id="key-5001947544a5df99528acaaf59b47187" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
Ss. 33A-33C applied (with modifications) (31.10.2009) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2009/2569" id="cbmat1mb3-00590" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2009" Number="2569" Title="The Court Martial Appeal Court (Evidence) Order 2009">The Court Martial Appeal Court (Evidence) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2569)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="cbmat1mb3-00591" CitationRef="cbmat1mb3-00590" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2009/2569/article/1" SectionRef="article-1">arts. 1</CitationSubRef>
,
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</Text>
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