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The Civil Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1997

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The Criminal Justice (Evidence, Etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (NI 17)

5.  In Schedule 1 for paragraph 5 substitute—

5.(1) In Part II—

“document” means anything in which information of any description is recorded;

“copy”, in relation to a document, means anything onto which information recorded in the document has been copied, by whatever means and whether directly or indirectly; and

“statement” means any representation of fact, however made.

(2) For the purposes of Part II, evidence which, by reason of a defect of speech or hearing, a person called as a witness gives in writing or by signs shall be treated as given orally..

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