CORRUPT PRACTICES AND OTHER RELATED OFFENCES ACT
Section 56: Admissibility of statements by accused persons.
(1) In any trial or inquiry by a court into any offence under this Act, any statement, whether the statement amounts to a confession or not whether oral or written, made at any time, whether before or after the person is charged and whether or not in the course of an investigation, and whether wholly or partly in answer to question, by the accused person to or in the hearing of any officer of the Commission, whether or not interpreted to him by any officers of the Commission or any other person concerned or not in the arrest of that person, shall, notwithstanding any written law or rule of law to the contrary, be admissible in evidence at the trial;
PROVIDED THAT the officer who procured such statement shall make himself available at the trial for the purpose of cross-examination.
(2) No statement made under subsection (1) shall be admissible or used as provided for in that subsection if the making of the statement appears to the court to have been caused by any inducement, threat or promise having reference to the charge against the person, proceeding from a person in authority and sufficient in the opinion of the court to give that person grounds which would appear to him reasonable for supposing that by making it he would gain any advantage or avoid any evil of a temporal nature in reference to the proceedings against him.
(3) Where any person is arrested or is informed that he may be prosecuted for any offence under this Act, he shall be served with a notice in writing, which shall be explained to him, to the following effect-
"You have been arrested on the allegation concerning... and whatever you say or write may be used in any court of law hereafter".
Cite this section
Section 56, CORRUPT PRACTICES AND OTHER RELATED OFFENCES ACT (2000).
https://repo.podus.ai/laws/corrupt-practices-and-other-related-offences-act/section/56/