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Section 51A

Delivery of certain documents

of Criminal Procedure Code

ActIn forceProvision 55 of 459
Section 51A

(a)

a copy of the information made under section 107 relating to the commission of the offence to which the accused is charged, if any;

(b)

a copy of any document which would be tendered as part of the evidence for the prosecution; and

(c)

a written statement of facts favourable to the defence of the accused signed under the hand of the Public Prosecutor or any person conducting the prosecution.

(2)

Notwithstanding paragraph (c), the prosecution may not supply any fact favourable to the accused if its supply would be contrary to public interest.

(3)

A document shall not be inadmissible in evidence merely because of non-compliance with subsection (1).

(4)

The Court may exclude any document delivered after the commencement of the trial if it is shown that such delivery was so done deliberately and in bad faith.

(5)

Where a document is delivered to the accused after the commencement of the trial, the Court shall allow the accused―

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(a)

a reasonable time to examine the document; and

(b)

to recall or resummon and examine any witness in relation to the document.