ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 107 Hearings to be in camera

ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 107

S. 107(1) amended by No. 35/1996

s. 453(Sch. 1 item 4).

    (1)     An application under this Act shall not be heard in open court and persons who are not parties to the proceedings or their legal practitioners or representatives shall, except as otherwise directed by the Court, be excluded during the hearing of such an application.

S. 107(1A) inserted by No. 32/2000 s. 17.

    (1A)     Subsection (1) does not exclude a person referred to in section 19(9) or their legal practitioners or representatives from the hearing of an application for discharge of an adoption order.

    (2)     The Court may, at the hearing of an application under this Act—

        (a)     order a child to leave the room or other place in which the Court is hearing the application at any time during the hearing if it is of opinion that such a direction should be given in the interests of the child; and

        (b)     order any person to leave the room or other place during the examination of a witness.

No. 7147 s. 63.

S. 108 amended by No. 46/1998

s. 7(Sch. 1).