http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/23/section/24/notesYouth justiceYoung offendingYouth offending teamsLegal proceedingsCrimeExplanatory Notes to Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999Home OfficeKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2013-02-21 <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/23" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1999" Number="0023">Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999</Citation> 23 27 July 1999 Commentary on SectionsPart II: Giving of evidence or information for purposes of criminal proceedingsChapter I: Special Measures directions in case of vulnerable or intimidated witnesses <CitationSubRef id="c00172" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/23/section/24" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-24">Section 24</CitationSubRef>: Evidence by live link 107 This section allows witnesses to give evidence by live link. This would usually mean a closed circuit television link, but the section is drafted sufficiently widely to apply to any technology with the same effect. 108 Subsections (2) and (3) are intended to create a presumption that a witness who gives evidence by live link for a part of the proceedings will continue to give evidence by this means throughout. 109 Subsections (5) and (6) describe how temporary facilities may be made available to magistrates’ courts for the purposes of hearing evidence by live link.
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Subsections (
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Subsections (
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describe how temporary facilities may be made available to magistrates’ courts for the purposes of hearing evidence by live link.
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