Section 15YDD — Crimes Act 1914: Evidence must be recorded

(1) A recording must be made of the evidence given by the vulnerable person at the evidence recording hearing. (1A) The recording must be a video recording unless the court is satisfied that extraordinary circumstances require the use of audio recording only. (2) The recording of the evidence must: (a) be played at the hearing of the proceeding; and (b) be admitted in evidence as the vulnerable person’s evidence at the hearing as if the vulnerable person gave the evidence at the hearing in person. (3) Subsection (2) has effect subject to section 15YDE (admissibility of evidence).