New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 88

88 Evidentiary effect of statements

(1) A written statement, or any other kind of statement permitted to be tendered under Part 3A of Chapter 6, is, if tendered by the prosecutor in accordance with this Division, admissible as evidence for the purposes of this Division to the same extent as if it were oral evidence to the like effect given under this Division by the same person.

(2) Any document or other thing identified in any statement admitted as evidence under this Division is, if the document or other thing is produced as an exhibit in the committal proceedings, to be treated as if it had been identified before the Magistrate by the person who made the statement.

(3) This section does not operate to make a statement admissible if it is not admissible because of another provision made by or under this Division.