Sections 2 and 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (which respectively allow written statements to be used as evidence in committal proceedings and in other criminal proceedings) and section 89 of that Act (which punishes the making of false statements which are tendered in evidence under either of those sections) shall apply to written statements made in Scotland or Northern Ireland as well as to written statements made in England and Wales.

The said section 2 shall apply also to written statements made outside the United Kingdom, but, in relation to such statements, that section shall have effect with the omission of subsections (2)(b), (3A) and (7).