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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 62

Admission of deposition of child or young person in evidence.

62. Where, in any proceedings in respect of any of the offences mentioned in
Schedule 1, the court is satisfied by the evidence of a doctor that the
attendance before the court of any child or young person in respect of whom
the offence is alleged to have been committed would involve serious danger to
his life or health, any deposition of the child or young person taken under
the Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 or any rules made
thereunder, or this Part, shall be admissible in evidence either for or
against the accused person without further proof thereof if it purports to be
signed by the justice by or before whom it purports to have been taken; but
such a deposition shall not be admissible in evidence either for or against
the accused person unless it is proved that reasonable notice of the intention
to take the deposition has been served upon the person (whether prosecutor or
accused) against whom it is proposed to be given in evidence and that he or
his counsel or solicitor had, or might have had if he had chosen to be
present, an opportunity of cross-examining the child or young person making
the deposition.

Constitution of juvenile courts.

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