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EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 33

Evidence given by police officers

  (1)   Despite section   32, in any criminal proceeding, a police officer may give evidence in chief for the prosecution by reading or being led through a written statement previously made by the police officer.

  (2)   Evidence may not be so given unless:

  (a)   the statement was made by the police officer at the time of or soon after the occurrence of the events to which it refers; and

  (b)   the police officer signed the statement when it was made; and

  (c)   a copy of the statement had been given to the person charged or to his or her Australian legal practitioner or legal counsel a reasonable time before the hearing of the evidence for the prosecution.

  (3)   A reference in this section to a police officer includes a reference to a person who, at the time the statement concerned was made, was a police officer.



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