Section 151 — Youth Criminal Justice Act: Evidence of a child or young person

The evidence of a child or a young person may be taken in proceedings under this Act only after the youth justice court judge or the justice in the proceedings has if the witness is a child, instructed the child as to the duty to speak the truth and the consequences of failing to do so;

and if the witness is a young person and the judge or justice considers it necessary, instructed the young person as to the duty to speak the truth and the consequences of failing to do so.