Republic of Namibia 9 Annotated Statutes Protection of Information Act 84 of 1982 (RSA) the Republic in contravention of any law, it shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed that the purpose for which it was published or disclosed is a purpose prejudicial to the security or interests of the Republic. Extra-territorial application of Act, and jurisdiction 11. (1) Any act constituting an offence under this Act and which is committed outside the Republic by any South African citizen or any person domiciled in the Republic shall be deemed to have been committed also in the Republic. (2) Any offence under this Act shall, for the purposes of determining the jurisdiction of a court to try the offence, be deemed to have been committed at the place where it actually was committed and also at any place where the accused happens to be. Authority of attorney-general required for institution of criminal proceedings 12. No trial or preparatory examination in respect of any offence under this Act, except any contravention of section 6, shall be instituted without the written authority of the attorneygeneral. [section 12 amended by AG 29 of 1985] Criminal proceedings may take place behind closed doors 13. Any court may, if it appears to that court to be necessary for considerations of the security or the other interests of the Republic, direct that any trial or preparatory examination in respect of an offence under this Act, shall take place behind closed doors or that the general public or any section thereof shall not be present thereat, and if the court issues any such direction, the court shall have the same powers as those conferred upon a court by section 154(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977), and the provisions of subsections (1), (4) and (5) of the said section 154 shall apply mutatis mutandis. Prohibited places and hostile organizations 14. The Administrator-General may, for the purposes of this Act, by proclamation in the Official Gazette declare (a) any place or area to be a prohibited place if he is satisfied that information with respect to that place or area, or the loss, damage, disruption or immobilization thereof could be of use to a foreign State or a hostile organization; or (b) any association of persons, movement or institution outside the Republic to be a hostile organization if he is satisfied that that association of persons, movement or institution incites, instigates, commands, aids, advises, encourages or procures any person in the Republic or elsewhere to commit in the Republic an act of violence for any purpose prejudicial to the security or interests of the Republic, and may in like manner at any time repeal or amend any such proclamation. [section 14 amended by AG 29 of 1985] Repeal of laws 15. The laws specified in the Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent set out in the third column of the Schedule.