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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 7

Reading at court of trial of statements tendered at preliminary enquiry.

7. The statement of a witness admitted in evidence at a preliminary enquiry
(other than a statement which is to be disregarded under section 4(2)) which
complies with the provisions of section 3 may, with the leave of the court, be
read as evidence at the trial

(a)by agreement between the prosecution and the defence, or

(b)if the court is satisfied that the witness is dead or unfit to give
evidence or to attend for that purpose, or that all reasonable efforts to find
him or to secure his attendance have been made without success.


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