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CIVIL EVIDENCE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 13

Consequential amendments relating to privilege.

13.(1) Section 1(3) of the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 (under
which a witness before a tribunal to which that Act has been applied is
entitled to the same privileges as if he were a witness before the High Court)
shall have effect as if after the word "witness", in the second place where it
occurs, there were inserted the words "in civil proceedings"; and any other
existing statutory provision, however framed or worded, which in relation to
any tribunal, investigation or inquiry (however described) confers on persons
required to answer questions or give evidence any privilege described by
reference to the privileges of witnesses in proceedings before any court
shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as referring to the
privileges of witnesses in civil proceedings before that court.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1975 c.34 s.8(2) sch.2

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of section 10(2) to (4), the
enactments mentioned in the Schedule shall have effect subject to the
amendments provided for by that Schedule (being verbal amendments to bring
those enactments into conformity with the provisions of that section).

(4) Section 10(5) shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies
for the purposes of that section.

General interpretation, and savings.

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