1Competency of witnesses in criminal cases.
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Provisos (b), (c), (d) rep. by 1989 NI 12
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F6 Subject to Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Evidence) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (admissibility of defendant’s bad character), a person chargedF7in criminal proceedings who is called as a witness in the proceedings may be asked any question in cross-examination notwithstanding that it would tend to criminate him as toF8any offence with which he is charged in the proceedings:
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Every personF10charged in criminal proceedings who is called as a witness in the proceedings shall, unless otherwise ordered by the court, give his evidence from the witness box or other place from which the other witnesses give their evidence:
Proviso (h) rep. by 1989 NI 12
2Evidence of person charged.
Where the only witness to the facts of the case called by the defence is a person charged, he shall be called as a witness immediately after the close of the evidence for the prosecution.
3Right of reply.
In cases where the right of reply depends upon the question whether evidence has been called for the defence, the fact that the person charged has been called as a witness shall not of itself confer on the prosecution the right of reply.
S. 4 rep. by 1989 NI 12
5Application of Act.
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This Act shall apply to all criminal proceedings,F11. . . .
Subs. (2) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952; subs. (3) rep. by 1954 c. 33 (NI); subs. (4) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952
6Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Evidence Act (Northern Ireland), 1923.