SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Committal Proceedings

Part I Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980

Amendments

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1

Section 103 (evidence of children in certain committal proceedings) shall be amended as follows.

2

The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (1)—

1

In any proceedings before a magistrates’ court inquiring as examining justices into an offence to which this section applies, a statement made in writing by or taken in writing from a child shall be admissible in evidence of any matter.

3

Subsections (3) and (4) (exclusion of subsection (1) and of section 28) shall be omitted.