Northern Territory Numbered Acts

EVIDENCE OF CHILDREN AMENDMENT ACT 2007 (NO 16 OF 2007) - SECT 9

(1)     Section 21A(1)

insert (in alphabetical order)

"audiovisual record" includes a recorded statement;

"authorised person" means:

    (a)     a legal practitioner; or

    (b)     a person of a class declared by regulation to be a class of authorised persons for the purposes of this definition;

"examination" of a witness includes cross-examination and
re-examination;

"recorded statement" means an interview, recorded on video-tape or by other audiovisual means, in which an authorised person elicits from a vulnerable witness statements of fact which, if true, would be of relevance to legal proceedings;

"serious violence offence" means an offence against any of the following provisions of the Criminal Code that is punishable by imprisonment for 5 or more years:

    (a)     Part V, Division 2;

    (b)     Part VI, Divisions 3 to 6A;

    (c)     section 211 or 212;

    (d)     another provision prescribed by the Regulations;

(2)     Section 21A(1A)

omit

(3)     Section 21A(2)

omit

in a matter where subsection (1A) does not apply,