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Evidence (Amendment) Act, 2023 🇳🇬

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Evidence (Amendment) Act, 2023

  • Assented to on 12 June 2023
  • Commenced on 12 June 2023
  • [This is the version of this document from 12 June 2023.]
An Act to amend the Evidence Act, No. 18, 2011 to bring its provisions in accordance with global technological advancements in evidence taking which shall be applicable to all judicial proceedings in or before courts in Nigeria; and for related matters.
ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Republic of Nigeria-

1. Amendment of Act No. 18, 2011

The Evidence Act, No. 18, 2011 (in this Act referred to as "the Principal Act") is amended as set out in this Act.

2. Amendment of section 84

(a)in subsection (2)(a), by inserting after the word "document", the words "or electronic records";
(b)in subsection (2)(b), by substituting for paragraph (b), a new paragraph "(b)"-
"(b) that during the period, information of the kind contained in the electronic record or of the kind from which the information so contained is derived was regularly fed into the computer in t…

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