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| (1) Where a court is satisfied that a child is competent, as required by the Evidence Ordinance, to testify in any proceedings but is not able to understand the nature of an oath or an affirmation, the court may receive the evidence of administered such child without causing an oath or an affirmation to be administered to such child, and any unsworn testimony given by such child in such proceeding shall be deemed not to be inadmissible by reason only of the fact that such testimony was not given on oath or affirmation and the proceeding in which such testimony was given shall not be invalidated by reason only of the tact that such testimony was not given on oath or affirmation. |
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| (2) Where a child is permitted, under subsection (1), to testify without taking an oath or making an affirmation, the child shall be bound to stale the truth on all matters to which his testimony relates, and the court shall explain this to the child. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts