Singapore legislation
Section 383
Section 383
Admissibility of evidence as to credibility of maker, etc., of statement admitted under certain provisions of this Chapter
(1)
Where in any criminal proceedings a statement made by a person who is not called as a witness in those proceedings is given in evidence by virtue of section 378 —
any evidence which, if that person had been so called, would be admissible for the purpose of destroying or supporting his credibility as a witness shall be 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 destroying 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 any criminal proceedings a statement made by a person who is not called as a witness in those proceedings is given in evidence by virtue of section 378, evidence tending to prove that, whether before or after he made that statement, that person made (whether orally or in a document or otherwise) another statement inconsistent therewith shall be admissible for the purpose of showing that that person has contradicted himself.
(3)
Subsections (1) and (2) shall apply in relation to a statement given in evidence by virtue of section 380 as they apply in relation to a statement given in evidence by virtue of section 378, except that references to the person who made the statement and to his making the statement shall be construed 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 378 (2) shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of section 378.[382