7BAudio visual record may be admitted into evidence

7B Audio visual record may be admitted into evidence

[Section 7B Inserted by No. 63 of 2013, s. 9, Applied:01 Mar 2014]

(1)  [Section 7B Subsection (1) substituted by No. 29 of 2019, s. 14, Applied:02 Oct 2019] A judge is to admit an audio visual record made under this Part into evidence in a later civil or criminal proceedings if the judge is satisfied that –

(a) the audio visual record is relevant to the later proceeding; and

(b) admission of the evidence would not be contrary to the interests of justice.

(2)  Before the judge admits such an audio visual record into evidence, the judge may have the record edited to exclude irrelevant material or material that is otherwise inadmissible in the later proceeding.

(3)  If a judge admits an audio visual record into evidence under this section, the judge may relieve the witness wholly or in part from an obligation to give evidence in the later proceeding.