Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 659
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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