Hong Kong Ordinances

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE - SECT 11

Place and manner of hearing

The room or place in which a magistrate sits to hear and try any complaint or
information shall be deemed an open and public court, to which the public
generally may have access, so far as the same can conveniently contain them,
unless the magistrate otherwise directs where the evidence is of an indecent
character, or where a prosecution is for an offence against the
Societies Ordinance ( Cap 151) and is an offence relating to or otherwise
connected with a Triad Society, in which case he shall make a note on the
depositions of the direction which he has given: Provided that in any case the
delivery by the magistrate of his determination and any proceedings subsequent
thereto, other than a review under section 104 which requires the hearing of
evidence, shall take place in open and public court. (Amended 24 of 1949 s. 7;
16 of 1960 s. 2) [cf. 1848 c. 43 s. 12 U.K.]