EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 106C

EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 106C

106C .         Child under 12 and mentally impaired witness may give unsworn evidence

                A person referred to in section 106B(1) or (2) who is not competent to give evidence under section 106B(3) may give evidence without taking an oath or making an affirmation if the court or person acting judicially forms the opinion, before the evidence is given, that the person is able to give an intelligible account of events which he or she has observed or experienced.

        [Section 106C inserted: No. 2 of 2008 s. 46.]