10(1)Section 103 (evidence of children in certain committal proceedings) shall be amended as follows.E+W
(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.