Criminal Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1923
1923 Chapter 9
An Act to amend the Law of Evidence in its application to Northern Ireland.
[10th May 1923]
Competency of witnesses in criminal cases.
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(1) A personcharged in criminal proceedings shall not be called as a witnessin the proceedings except upon his own application;Provisos (b), (c), (d) rep. by 1989 NI 12
(2) 
					Subject to Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Evidence)
					(Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (admissibility of defendant’s bad character), a person chargedin 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 toany offence with which he is charged in the proceedings:
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) Every personcharged 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
Evidence of person charged.
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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.
Right of reply.
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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

Application of Act.
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(1) This Act shall apply to all criminal proceedings,. . . .Subs. (2) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952; subs. (3) rep. by 1954 c. 33 (NI); subs. (4) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952
Short title.
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This Act may be cited as the Criminal Evidence Act (Northern Ireland), 1923.


First Schedule rep. by 1989 NI 12



Second Schedule rep. by SLR (NI) 1952
