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EVIDENCE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1939 - SECT 2

Weight to be attached to evidence.

2.(1) In estimating the weight, if any, to be attached to a statement rendered
admissible as evidence by this Act, regard shall be had to all the
circumstances from which any inference can reasonably be drawn as to the
accuracy or otherwise of the statement, and in particular to the question
whether or not the statement was made contemporaneously with the occurrence or
existence of the facts stated, and to the question whether or not the maker of
the statement had any incentive to conceal or misrepresent facts.

(2) For the purpose of any rule of law or practice requiring evidence to be
corroborated or regulating the manner in which uncorroborated evidence is to
be treated, a statement rendered admissible as evidence by this Act shall not
be treated as corroboration of evidence given by the maker of the statement.

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