Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020

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Number 13 of 2020


CIVIL LAW AND CRIMINAL LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2020


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

1. Short title, commencement and collective citation

2. Definitions

3. Expenses

4. Orders

5. Repeals

PART 2

Amendments to Coroners Act 1962

6. Definition (Part 2)

7. Assignment and appointment of temporary coroner in exceptional circumstances

8. Arrangements for coroners’ districts other than coroner’s district of Dublin

9. Amendment of section 14 of Principal Act

PART 3

Civil Proceedings

Chapter 1

Definition

10. Definition (Part 3)

Chapter 2

Remote hearing of civil proceedings

11. Remote hearing of civil proceedings

Chapter 3

Business records and other documents in civil proceedings

12. Definition (Chapter 3)

13. Business records in document form presumed to be admissible

14. Admissibility of business records: general

15. Notice of business records evidence

16. Admission and weight of business records evidence

17. Evidence as to credibility of supplier of information

18. Copies of business records admissible

19. Evidence of resolution of Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann

Chapter 4

Miscellaneous

20. Use of electronic means in civil proceedings

21. Statement of truth

PART 4

Criminal Procedure

22. Interpretation (Part 4)

23. Certain applications to court in criminal proceedings to be heard using live video link

24. Certain applications to court in relevant proceedings to be heard using live video link

25. Evidence through live video link

26. Remote hearing of appeal proceedings

27. Amendment of section 17 of Criminal Justice Administration Act 1914

28. Power of court to make arrangements for conduct of criminal proceedings or relevant proceedings

PART 5

Miscellaneous

29. Remote meetings of State body

30. Remote meetings of unincorporated body

31. Remote hearings by designated body

32. Execution of documents in counterpart

33. Power to alter or vary order


Acts Referred to

Charities Act 2009 (No. 6)

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (No. 14)

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Coroners Act 1962 (No. 9)

Coroners Acts 1962 to 2019

Courts of Justice Act 1953 (No. 32)

Criminal Evidence Act 1992 (No. 12)

Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5) c.58

Criminal Procedure Act 1967 (No. 12)

European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 (No. 45)

Extradition Act 1965 (No. 17)

International Criminal Court Act 2006 (No. 30)

International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1998 (No. 40)

Interpretation Act 2005 (No. 23)

Prisons Act 2007 (No. 10)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

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Number 13 of 2020


CIVIL LAW AND CRIMINAL LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2020


An Act to make provision for the assignment and appointment of temporary coroners in certain exceptional circumstances; to provide for the authorisation of deputy coroners to act concurrently with coroners in certain exceptional circumstances; and for those and other purposes to amend the Coroners Act 1962 ; to provide for the admissibility, in certain circumstances, of business records in civil proceedings; to make provision for remote hearings and the use of electronic means in civil proceedings and the making of statements of truth; to make provision for the making of certain applications in certain proceedings using live video link, the giving of certain evidence using live video link, the remote hearing of certain proceedings in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, the amendment of section 17 of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914 , the power of a court to make arrangements for the conduct of certain proceedings and the repeal of sections 33 and 34 of the Prisons Act 2007 ; to make provision for the holding of meetings of State bodies by remote meeting; to make provision, having regard to the risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19, in relation to the holding of meetings of unincorporated bodies by remote meeting; to make provision for bodies conducting hearings under enactments to do so by remote means; to make provision for the execution of certain documents in counterpart; to amend the Courts of Justice Act 1953 ; and to provide for related matters.

[6th August, 2020]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: