{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-evidence-etc-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-evidence-etc-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1988/1847",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Evidence, Etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-evidence-etc-northern-ireland-order-1988",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Abolition of requirement of corroboration for unsworn evidence of children",
  "text": "Para. (1) rep. by 1995 NI 3\n(2) Any requirement whereby at a trial on indictment it is obligatory for the court to give the jury a warning about convicting the accused on the uncorroborated evidence of a child is abrogated. . .\n(3) Unsworn evidence admitted by virtue of Article 34 of the Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 may corroborate evidence (sworn or unsworn) given by any other person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1996 NI 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1999 NI 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1988/1847/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:35.179728+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}