(1) This rule applies to committal proceedings, summary proceedings and
application proceedings.
(2) Unless the Court, or another court or tribunal
has ordered otherwise, a person, whether or not a party to the proceedings,
may only have access to, or obtain a copy of, a video recording of the
proceedings in the Court--
(a) with the leave of a Magistrate or registrar,
and
(b) if the person gives an undertaking to the Court that the person will
not copy, or permit a person to copy, the video recording, or give possession
of the video recording to another person, and
(c) in respect of leave to
obtain a copy of the video recording--on payment of the prescribed fee.
(3) A
Magistrate or registrar may grant leave for the purposes of subrule (2) if the
Magistrate or registrar has determined that the video recording contains
evidence that may be relevant--
(a) in proceedings brought in respect of an
offence under section 24A of the Act, or
(b) in proceedings in which an
official video recording of proceedings in a court or tribunal is admissible
in evidence, or
(c) in proceedings for contempt of court, or
(d) in any
other proceeding before a court or tribunal, or any other body or person
exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions.
(4) In determining whether
to grant a person leave for the purposes of subrule (3), the Magistrate or
registrar is to have regard to the matters set out in rule 8.10(5).
