Crimes Act 1914

Part IAD - Protecting vulnerable persons  

Division 2A - Evidence recording hearings  

SECTION 15YDD   Evidence must be recorded  

(1)    
A recording must be made of the evidence given by the vulnerable person at the evidence recording hearing.

(1A)    
The recording must be a video recording unless the court is satisfied that extraordinary circumstances require the use of audio recording only.

(2)    
The recording of the evidence must:

(a)    be played at the hearing of the proceeding; and

(b)    be admitted in evidence as the vulnerable person ' s evidence at the hearing as if the vulnerable person gave the evidence at the hearing in person.

(3)    
Subsection (2) has effect subject to section 15YDE (admissibility of evidence).