Criminal Code (Cap. 9)

Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 659

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659. ( 1 ) W h e r e i t i s n o t p o s s i b l e t o r e c o r d a c o n f e s s i o n b y audiovisual means in terms of article 355AUA(8)( e), if a confession is reduced to writing at the time it is made, the wr iting shall be produced; and only if it is proved that the writing ha s been destroyed or lost, may oral evidence, in lieu of such writing, be admitted for the purpose of proving the substance of such confession. (2) Nothing in this article shall operate as a bar to the admissibility in evidence of any other confession verbally made before or after. CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 405 Confession to be produced in full. Substituted by: LI.2016.8.

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