Western Australian Current Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 106I

106I .         Visual recording of child’s evidence, application for directions

        (1)         Where a Schedule 7 proceeding has been commenced in a court, the prosecutor may apply to a judge of that court for an order directing —

        [(a)         deleted]

            (b)         that the whole of the affected child’s evidence (including cross-examination and re-examination) be —

                  (i)         taken at a special hearing and recorded on a visual recording; and

                  (ii)         presented to the court in the form of that visual recording,

                and that the affected child not be present at the proceeding.

        (2)         The accused is to be served with a copy of, and is entitled to be heard on, an application under subsection (1).

        [Section 106I inserted: No. 36 of 1992 s. 8; amended: No. 71 of 2000 s. 20; No. 46 of 2004 s. 14(3), (4) and 21; No. 2 of 2008 s. 51.]

[ 106J.         Deleted: No. 46 of 2004 s. 22(1).]