KUALA LUMPUR: The Evidence of Child Witness (Amendment) Bill 2024 which aims to provide for the competency of child witnesses to give evidence in any ...
Minister of Law and Institutional Reform in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said - BERNAMApix: The Evidence of Child Witness Bill 2024 which aims to provide for the competency of child witnesses to give evidence in any proceedings, was tabled for the first reading in Dewan Rakyat today.
According to the Parliament’s website, the bill seeks, among others, to insert Section 2A that all child witnesses shall be presumed to be competent to give evidence in any proceedings; and 2B that a child witness shall give evidence upon oath in a proceedings if he has attained the age of 12 years and has a sufficient appreciation of the solemnity of the occasion and understands the duty of speaking the truth.
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