Section 47 of the Evidence Act 2011 – What it Says and All You Need to Know.
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Section 47 of the Evidence Act 2011 Provides as Follows:
A statement in accordance with sections 290 and 291 or section 319 of the Criminal Procedure Act, may afterwards be used in evidence on the trial of any person accused of all offence to which the same relates, if the person who made the statement cannot be called for any of the reasons specified in section 39, and if reasonable notice of the intention to take such statement was served upon the person against whom it is to be read in evidence and he had, or might have had, if he had chosen to be present, full opportunity of cross-examining the person making the statement.
Other Relevant Sections:
- Section 48 of the Evidence Act 2011
- Section 49 of the Evidence Act 2011
- Section 50 of the Evidence Act 2011