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.”.