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Antigua and Barbuda

Any document or object referred to as an exhibit and identified in a written statement tendered in
evidence under this section shall be treated as if it had been produced as an exhibit and identified
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in court by the maker of the statement.

Barbados

In any criminal proceedings, other than proceedings before an examining magistrate, a written
statement by any person is, if such of the conditions mentioned in subsection (2) as are

applicable are satisfied, admissible as evidence to the like extent as oral evidence to the like
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effect by that person.

Any document or object referred to as an exhibit and identified in a written statement tendered in
evidence shall be treated as if it has been produced as an exhibit and identified in court by the

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maker of the statement.
Division 3A of the Evidence Act cap. 121 deals with retention of evidence in criminal

proceedings. For the purposes of this division "agent" means a person authorised in writing by
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the accused to act on his behalf.

Any photograph of a scene or of anything seized by the police for the purposes of a criminal
investigation shall be admitted for use as evidence in a criminal trial but not unless it was taken

in the presence of the accused or his attorney-at-law or an agent acting on his behalf or a copy of
the photograph is signed by them acknowledging that the photograph is a true likeness of the

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thing photographed.
A copy of any photograph taken as above must be served on the accused or his attorney-at-law

or agent personally or by registered post within 7 days of its being taken who may, not later than

46 Anguilla - Magistrate’s Code of Procedure Act Chap M5, section 82
47 Antigua and Barbuda – Magistrate’s Code of Procedure Act Cap. 255, section 71(5)
48 Barbados – Evidence Act Cap. 121, section 154(1)(2)
49 Barbados – Evidence Act Cap. 121, section 154(8); Police Commissioner v Springer1962) 4 WIR 286
50 Barbados – Evidence Act Cap. 121, section 132A
51 Barbados – Evidence Act Cap. 121, section 132B(1)(2)
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