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<Number>PART IV</Number>
<Title>
COURSE OF JUSTICE: EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE,
<Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">ETC.</Abbreviation>
</Title>
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<Title>
<Emphasis>Corroboration</Emphasis>
</Title>
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<Title>Abolition of corroboration rules</Title>
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<Pnumber>45</Pnumber>
<P1para>
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<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any requirement whereby at a trial on indictment it is obligatory for the court to give the jury a warning about convicting the accused on the uncorroborated evidence of a person merely because that person is—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>an alleged accomplice of the accused, or</Text>
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</P3>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>where the offence charged is a sexual offence, the person in respect of whom it is alleged to have been committed,</Text>
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<Text>is hereby abrogated.</Text>
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</P2>
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<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In Article 13(2) of the
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Criminal Justice (Evidence, Etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (abolition of requirement of corroboration warning in respect of evidence of a child) the words from “in relation to” to the end shall be omitted.
</Text>
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<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any requirement that—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>is applicable at the summary trial of a person for an offence, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
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<Text>
corresponds to the requirement mentioned in paragraph (1) or that mentioned in Article 13(2) of the
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Criminal Justice (Evidence, Etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988,
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<Text>is hereby abrogated.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
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<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Nothing in this Article applies in relation to—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any trial, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any preliminary investigation or preliminary inquiry into an indictable offence conducted by a magistrates' court,</Text>
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</P3>
<Text>which began before the coming into operation of this Article.</Text>
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<Para>
<Text>
1988
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17
</Text>
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<Para>
<Text>1988 NI 17.</Text>
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