EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 106I
EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 106I
106I . Visual recording of child’s evidence, application for directions
(1) Where a Schedule 7
proceeding has been commenced in a court, the prosecutor may apply to a judge
of that court for an order directing —
[(a) deleted]
(b) that
the whole of the affected child’s evidence (including cross-examination
and re-examination) be —
(i)
taken at a special hearing and recorded on a visual
recording; and
(ii)
presented to the court in the form of that visual
recording,
and that the affected
child not be present at the proceeding.
(2) The accused is to
be served with a copy of, and is entitled to be heard on, an application under
subsection (1).
[Section 106I inserted: No. 36 of 1992 s. 8;
amended: No. 71 of 2000 s. 20; No. 46 of 2004 s. 14(3), (4) and 21; No. 2 of
2008 s. 51.]
[ 106J. Deleted: No. 46 of 2004 s. 22(1).]