Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

67.   Extension of power to take depositions

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    (1)   Subject to subsection (2), if the Court is satisfied by the evidence of a medical practitioner that the attendance before the Court of any child in respect of whom the offence is alleged to have been committed would involve serious danger to his or her life or health, any deposition of the child taken under this Part shall be admitted in evidence either for or against the accused child without further proof if it is signed by the Judge before whom it was taken.

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    (2)   The deposition taken under subsection (1) is not admissible in evidence against the accused person unless it is proven that —

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      (a)     reasonable notice of the intention to take the deposition is given to him or her; or

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      (b)     the deposition was taken in the presence of the accused person; and

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      (c)     his or her attorney-at-law had the opportunity to cross-examine the child making the deposition.