# Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, Paragraph 3


(1) A justice who signs a certificate authenticating one or more relevant statements or depositions shall be treated for the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 as signing the statement or deposition or (as the case may be) each of them.
(2) For this purpose—
(a) a relevant statement is a written statement made by a person for the purposes of proceedings before a magistrates’ court inquiring into an offence as examining justices;
(b) a relevant deposition is a deposition made in pursuance of section 97A of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 for the purposes of such proceedings.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/25/schedule/2/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-3
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