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EVIDENCE ACT 1851 - SECT 3 

Saving as to criminal proceedings.

3. But nothing herein contained shall render any person who in any criminal
proceeding is charged with the commission of any indictable offence, or any
offence punishable on summary conviction, competent or compellable to give
evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall render any person
compellable to answer any question tending to criminate himself or herself, or
shall in any criminal proceeding render any husband competent or compellable
to give evidence for or against his wife, or any wife competent or compellable
to give evidence for or against her husband.

S.4 rep. by 1869 c.68 s.1

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