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CurrentApplication for court order
Part 3Protecting witnesses from identification
7 Application for court order
(1)
The chief police officer may apply to the Supreme Court for an order authorising a specified person or a person of a specified class or description of people—
(a)
to make a new entry in the register in relation to a witness; or
(b)
to issue in the witness’s new identity a document of a kind previously issued to the witness.
(2)
The chief police officer must provide the evidence that the Supreme Court may require to satisfy itself about the matters mentioned in section 8.
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