Part III Course of Justice: Evidence, Procedure, Etc.
Corroboration
33 Abolition of corroboration requirements under Sexual Offences Act 1956.
1
The following provisions of the M1Sexual Offences Act 1956 (which provide that a person shall not be convicted of the offence concerned on the evidence of one witness only unless the witness is corroborated) are hereby repealed—
a
section 2(2) (procurement of woman by threats),
b
section 3(2) (procurement of woman by false pretences),
c
section 4(2) (administering drugs to obtain or facilitate intercourse),
d
section 22(2) (causing prostitution of women), and
e
section 23(2) (procuration of girl under twenty-one).
2
Nothing in this section applies in relation to—
a
any trial, or
b
any proceedings before a magistrates’ court as examining justices,
which began before the commencement of this section.