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EVIDENCE AMENDMENT ACT 1853

EVIDENCE AMENDMENT ACT 1853 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend an Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Victoria,
Chapter Ninety-nine.
[20th August 1853]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1892

EVIDENCE AMENDMENT ACT 1853 - SECT 1
Husbands and wives of parties to be admissible witnesses.

1. On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or
question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other
proceeding in any court of justice, or before any person having by
law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, and
examine evidence, the husbands and wives of the parties thereto, and
of the persons in whose behalf any such suit, action, or other
proceeding may be brought or instituted, or opposed or defended,
shall, except as herein-after excepted, be competent and compellable
to give evidence, either viva8 voce or by deposition, according to
the practice of the court, on behalf of either or any of the
parties to the said suit, action, or other proceeding.

EVIDENCE AMENDMENT ACT 1853 - SECT 2
Saving as to criminal cases.

2. Nothing herein shall render any husband competent or compellable
to give evidence for or against his wife, or any wife competent or
compellable to give evidence for or against her husband, in any
criminal proceeding,....

EVIDENCE AMENDMENT ACT 1853 - SECT 3
Husbands and wives not compellable to disclose communications.

3. No husband shall be compellable to disclose any communication
made to him by his wife during the marriage, and no wife shall be
compellable to disclose any communication made to her by her husband
during the marriage.

S.4 rep. by SLR 1875

EVIDENCE AMENDMENT ACT 1853 - SECT 5
Short title.

5. In citing this Act in other Acts of Parliament, or in any
instrument, document, or proceeding, it shall be sufficient to use
the expression, "The Evidence Amendment Act, 1853."

S.6 rep. by SLR 1875