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This Order amends the law relating to evidence in criminal proceedings in Northern Ireland. Article 3 specifies circumstances in which inferences may be drawn from an accused’s failure to mention particular facts when questioned about or charged with an offence. Under Article 4, an accused person may be called upon by the court to give evidence at his trial, and certain inferences may be drawn if he refuses to do so. Article 5 authorises inferences to be drawn from an accused person’s failure or refusal to account for objects, substances or marks in certain circumstances. Article 6 allows inferences to be drawn from an accused person’s presence at a place about the time when the offence in respect of which he was arrested was committed, if specified conditions are satisfied.
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