Section 539 — Criminal Code: Order restricting publication of evidence taken at preliminary inquiry

Prior to the commencement of the taking of evidence at a preliminary inquiry, the justice holding the inquiry may, if application therefor is made by the prosecutor, and shall, if application therefor is made by any of the accused, make an order directing that the evidence taken at the inquiry shall not be published in any document or broadcast or transmitted in any way before such time as, in respect of each of the accused, he or she is discharged, or if he or she is ordered to stand trial, the trial is ended. Where an accused is not represented by counsel at a preliminary inquiry, the justice holding the inquiry shall, prior to the commencement of the taking of evidence at the inquiry, inform the accused of his right to make application under subsection (1). Every one who fails to comply with an order made pursuant to subsection (1) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. [Repealed, 2005, c. 32, s. 18]