The Short Title of this Act is “The Criminal Code Amendment Act, 1905”; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Criminal Code Act, 1893.”

Section one hundred and ninety-six of “The Criminal Code Act, 1893,” is hereby amended by repealing the words “one month,” and substituting in lieu thereof the words “six months.”

Where on any trial before any Court of justice the Court is of opinion that the interests of public morality require that all or any persons should be excluded from the Court, it may exclude such persons therefrom accordingly:

Provided that such power shall not be exercised for the purpose of excluding the prosecutor or the accused, or his counsel or solicitor, or any accredited newspaper reporter.

The Court in any such case may also, by order, forbid the publication of any report or account of the evidence therein, either as to the whole or any portion thereof; and the breach of any such order, or any colourable or attempted evasion thereof, may be dealt with as contempt of Court.