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Section 109: Child victim as witness

Criminal Procedure Act · PART V: TRIAL

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109. Child victim as witness In every trial of an offence charged as having been committed, or attempted to be committed, upon a child of tender years, the child, if under the age of 9, shall be admissible as a witness, where the Judge or Magistrate by or before whom the case is tried, is satisfied that he has sufficient intelligence to make a correct statement on the subject of the trial, although he may not understand the nature of an oath or of a solemn affirmation.

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