(3) A brief of evidence
that includes a transcript of a recording of an interview with a
vulnerable person is not required also to include a written statement from the
vulnerable person concerned.
(4) The transcript of the recording is taken,
for the purposes of this Division, to be a written statement taken from the
vulnerable person. Accordingly, any document or other thing identified in the
transcript as a proposed exhibit forms part of the brief of evidence.
(6) This
section does not affect section 306V (2).
(7) In this section--
"investigating official" has the same meaning as it has in Part 6 of Chapter
6.
Note : Part 6 of Chapter 6 allows vulnerable persons (children and
cognitively impaired persons) to give evidence of a previous representation in
the form of a recording made by an investigating official of an interview with
the vulnerable person. Section 306V (2) (which is contained in that Part)
provides that such evidence is not to be admitted unless the accused person
and his or her Australian legal practitioner have been given a reasonable
opportunity to listen to or view the recording.