Singapore legislation

Clause 2

Amendment of section 3

Section 3 of the Evidence Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately before the definition of “copy of a document” in subsection (1), the following definition:“ “child abuse offence” means any offence specified in Part 1 of the First Schedule, and includes attempting to commit, abetting the commission of, or being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit, such an offence;”;

(b)

by deleting the full-stop immediately after the words “necessarily follows” in the definition of “fact in issue” in subsection (1) and substituting a semi‑colon; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the illustrations to the definition of “fact in issue” in subsection (1), the following definition:“ “sexual offence” means any offence specified in Part 2 of the First Schedule, and includes attempting to commit, abetting the commission of, or being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit, such an offence.”.

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