Singapore legislation
Clause 275
Clause 275
Admissibility of evidence as to credibility of maker, etc., of statement admitted under certain provisions of this Part
(1)
Where in criminal proceedings a statement made by a person who is not called as a witness in those proceedings is given in evidence under section 270 —
any evidence which, if that person had been so called, would be admissible for the purpose of undermining or supporting that person’s credibility as a witness, is admissible for that purpose in those proceedings; and
as regards any matter which, if that person had been so called, could have been put to him in cross-examination for the purpose of undermining his credibility as a witness, being a matter of which, if he had denied it, evidence could not have been adduced by the cross-examining party, evidence of that matter may with the leave of the court be given for that purpose.
(2)
Where in criminal proceedings a statement made by a person who is not called as a witness in those proceedings is given in evidence under section 270, evidence tending to prove that, whether before or after he made that statement, he made another statement (orally, written or otherwise) inconsistent with the first-mentioned statement is admissible for the purpose of showing that he has contradicted himself.
(3)
Subsections (1) and (2) apply in relation to a statement given in evidence under section 272 as they apply to a statement given under section 270, except that references to the person who made the statement and to his making the statement must be read respectively as references to the person who originally supplied the information from which the record containing the statement was compiled and to his supplying that information.
(4)
Section 270(2) applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of section 270.