Queensland Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1977 - SECT 103IA

103IA Admissibility of transcripts of recorded statements in particular registry committal proceedings

(1) This section applies to a registry committal under the Justices Act 1886 , section 114 if—

(a) the indictable offence to which subsection (1) (a) of that section relates is a domestic violence offence; and

(b) for the purpose of section 103C of this Act, definition
"domestic violence proceeding" —

(i) committal proceedings are a type of proceeding prescribed for the purpose of paragraph (b) of that definition; and

(ii) the clerk of the court is the clerk of a court at a place prescribed for the purpose of paragraph (c) of that definition.

(2) A transcript of a recorded statement is admissible as a complainant’s written statement if the recorded statement would be admissible under section 103H of this Act as if subsection (1) (d) of that section were omitted.