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AND FOR INCIDENTAL\nAND CONNECTED PURPOSES\nENACTED by the Governor in accordance with section 81 of the Constitution, after\nconsultation with the Premier, with the prior approval of the Secretary of State, and\npursuant to instructions issued in accordance with section 31 of the Constitution.\n1.\nShort title and commencement\n1.\n(1) This Law may be cited as the Evidence (Amendment) Law, 2020.\n(2) This Law comes into force immediately after the commencement of the Civil\nPartnership Law, 2020.\n2.\nAmendment of section 2 of the Evidence Law (2019 Revision) - definitions\n2.\nThe Evidence Law (2019 Revision), in this Law referred to as the \u201cprincipal Law\u201d, is\namended in section 2 by inserting in the appropriate alphabetical sequence the\nfollowing definitions \u2014\n\u201c \u201ccivil partner\u201d has the meaning assigned by the Civil Partnership\nLaw, 2020; and\n\u201ccivil partnership\u201d has the meaning assigned by the Civil\nPartnership Law, 2020;\u201d.\n(Law 37 of 2020)\nI Assent,\nMartyn Roper\nGovernor\nDate: 4th day of September, 2020\n\nSection 3\nEvidence (Amendment) Law, 2020\n\nPage 6\nLaw 37 of 2020\nc\n\n3.\nRepeal of section 19 and substitution - competence and compellability of\naccused\u2019s spouse\n3.\nThe principal Law is amended by repealing section 19 and substituting the following\nsection \u2014\n\n\u201cCompetence and compellability of accused\u2019s spouse or civil\npartner\n19. (1) In any criminal proceedings the wife, husband or civil partner of the\naccused shall be competent to give evidence \u2014\n(a)\nsubject to subsection (4), for the prosecution; and\n(b) on behalf of the accused or any person jointly charged with the\naccused.\n(2) In any criminal proceedings the wife, husband or civil partner of the\naccused shall, subject to subsection (4), be compellable to give\nevidence on behalf of the accused.\n(3) In any criminal proceedings the wife, husband or civil partner of the\naccused shall, subject to subsection (4), be compellable to give\nevidence for the prosecution or on behalf of any person jointly\ncharged with the accused if \u2014\n(a)\nthe offence charged involves an assault on, or injury or threat\nof injury to, the wife, husband or civil partner of the accused or\na person who was at the material time under the age of sixteen;\n(b) the offence charged is a sexual offence alleged to have been\ncommitted in respect of a person who was at the material time\nunder that age; or\n(c)\nthe offence charged consists of attempting or conspiring to\ncommit, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, procuring or\ninciting the commission of, an offence falling within paragraph\n(a) or (b).\n(4) Where a husband and wife or civil partners are jointly charged with\nan offence neither spouse or civil partner shall, at the trial, be\ncompetent or compellable by virtue of subsection (1)(a), (2) or (3) to\ngive evidence in respect of that offence unless that spouse or civil\npartner is not, or is no longer, liable to be convicted of that offence\nat the trial as a result of pleading guilty or for any other reason.\n(5) In any criminal proceedings a person who has been but is no longer\nmarried to the accused or in a civil partnership with the accused shall\nbe competent and compellable to give evidence as if that person and\nthe accused had never been married or in a civil partnership.\n\nEvidence (Amendment) Law, 2020\nSection 4\n\nc\nLaw 37 of 2020\nPage 7\n\n(6) Where in any criminal proceedings the age of a person at any time is\nmaterial for the purposes of subsection (3), the age of the person at\nthe material time shall for the purposes of that provision be deemed\nto be or to have been that which appears to the court to be or have\nbeen the person\u2019s age at that time.\n(7) The failure of the wife, husband or civil partner of the accused to give\nevidence shall not be made the subject of any comment by the\nprosecution.\u201d.\n4.\nAmendment of section 42 - parties as witnesses in civil cases\n4.\nThe principal Law is amended in section 42 by inserting after the word \u201cspouses\u201d the\nwords \u201cor civil partners\u201d.\n5.\nAmendment of section 51 - admissibility of certain hearsay evidence\nformerly admissible at common law\n5.\nThe principal Law is amended in section 51(4)(b) as follows \u2014\n(a)\nby inserting after the word \u201cmarriage\u201d where it twice appears the words\n\u201cor civil partnership\u201d; 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