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Objects and Reasons.
This Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a section based upon section 30 of the Children Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 67) providing for the reception in criminal proceedings of the unsworn evidence of children of tender years who in the opinion of the Court understand the duty of speaking the truth, but not the obligation imposed by an oath.
Section 7 (3) of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordin- ance, which makes a like provision in cases under sections and 7 of that Ordinance, is repealed.
August, 1934.
R. E. LINDSELL,
Attorney General.
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