Section 2

“Court” means the High Court, the Sessions Court, the Magistrates’

Court and the Court For Children;

“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for law;

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“medical officer” means a registered medical practitioner in the public service and includes a registered medical practitioner in any teaching hospital of a university established under the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 [Act 30];

“police officer” has the meaning assigned to it in the Police

Act 1967 [Act 344];

“special hearing” means a special hearing conducted by the Court, in which evidence of examination-in-chief, cross-examination and re-examination of a child witness are pre-recorded;

“video recording”, in relation to a child witness, means a video recording of the oral evidence of the child witness, in the form of an interview conducted between a police officer and the child witness, expressed upon any format, made with a view to its admission as evidence of examination-in-chief of the child witness;

“live link” means a live television link or other arrangement whereby a child witness, while being absent from the courtroom or other place where the proceedings are being held, is able to see and hear a person in such courtroom or other place and to be seen and heard by the persons specified in paragraphs 4(2)(a) to (d);

“child witness” means a person under the age of eighteen years who is called or proposed to be called to give evidence in any proceedings but does not include an accused or a child charged with any offence.