Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2024

12 Live broadcast of proceedings

After section 93 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 insert—

“Other matters

93A Live broadcast of proceedings

(1) Where an ecclesiastical court directs that certain proceedings are to be broadcast live in order to enable members of the public to see and hear the proceedings, the direction must—

(a) specify the means by which the proceedings are to be broadcast (for example, by live stream), and

(b) state whether the whole, or only a specified part, of the proceedings is to be broadcast.

(2) It is a contempt of court for a person to make, or attempt to make, a transmission or recording of—

(a) an image or sound broadcast in accordance with the direction, or

(b) an image of, or sound made by, another person while that other person is viewing or listening to a broadcast made in accordance with the direction.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply in so far as the transmission or recording is authorised by the direction or authorised (generally or specifically) by the ecclesiastical court in which the proceedings are being held.

(4) A broadcast made in accordance with the direction does not amount to a breach of—

(a) section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 (prohibition on taking photographs etc in court), or

(b) section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 (recording).

(5) “Ecclesiastical court” has the same meaning as in section 83(2)(a) and (b) (see section 83(7)).”