Queensland Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1977 - SECT 9A

9A Competency to give evidence

(1) This section applies if, in a particular case, an issue is raised, by a party to the proceeding or the court, about the competency of a person called as a witness in the proceeding to give evidence.

(2) The person is competent to give evidence in the proceeding if, in the court’s opinion, the person is able to give an intelligible account of events which he or she has observed or experienced.

(3) Subsection (2) applies even though the evidence is not given on oath.