Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) This section applies if a child 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 child to identify a person or thing; or
(c) to allow the child 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 child at the external place; or
(b) who must not be with the child 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 child and people in the external place with the child; or
(d) who, in the courtroom, is to be able to see and hear the child and anyone else in the external place with the child; or
(e) how the audiovisual link is to operate.
(4) The court may order that a person be excluded from the external place while the child is giving evidence.
(5) The court may direct that an order under this section apply only to a particular part of the proceeding.