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Attendance of police at sittings
Cap. 91, s. 56 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) The Commissioner of Police shall cause a sufficient number of police officers to attend all sittings of the Court for the purpose of assisting in the preservation of order and for the keeping of prisoners in custody at every sitting of the Court in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction.
(2) All such officers shall obey the orders of any judge.
(3) The Commissioner of Police may regulate vehicular and other traffic of all kinds around the court building in any district so as to prevent or lessen noises which render difficult the transaction of the business of the Court, and for this purpose may make an issue any order or orders to be effective during any sitting of the Court.
(4) Every person who fails to comply with any order of the Commissioner of Police made for the purposes of sub-section
(3) shall be guilty of an offence and, on summary conviction thereof, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
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