Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00203:clause:6_169f
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00203
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 6 cl 169F
Character Range: 212878–214424

169F  Consequential orders
 (1) This section applies if a complainant or similar act witness is to give evidence in a proceeding by audiovisual link.
 (2) The court may make any order it considers appropriate:
 (a) to ensure that the proceeding is conducted fairly; or
 (b) to allow the complainant or similar act witness to identify a person or thing; or
 (c) to allow the complainant or similar act witness to take part in a view or to watch a demonstration or experiment; or
 (d) to allow part of the proceeding to be heard somewhere other than in the courtroom.
 (3) The court may make any other order it considers appropriate, including, for example, an order stating:
 (a) who may be with the complainant or similar act witness at the external place; or
 (b) who must not be with the complainant or similar act witness at the external place; or
 (c) who, in the courtroom, is to be able, or must not be able, to be heard, or seen and heard, by the complainant or similar act witness and people in the external place with the complainant or similar act witness; or
 (d) who, in the courtroom, is to be able to see and hear the complainant or similar act witness and anyone else in the external place with the complainant or similar act witness; or
 (e) how the audiovisual link is to operate.
 (4) The court may order that a person be excluded from the other place while the complainant or similar act witness is giving evidence.
 (5) The court may direct that an order under this section apply only to a particular part of the proceeding.