Crimes Amendment Act 1926 (NSW)

CEIMES AMENDMENT ACT.

Act No. 4, 1926.

An Act to amend section four hundred and seven

of the Crimes Act, 1900, in certain respects.

[Assented to, 17th March, 1926.]

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South	BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­
Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :—
1. This Act m a y b e cited as the "Crimes Amend- ment Act, 1926 , " and shall be read and construed with the Crimes Act, 1900, as amended by subsequent Acts.
2 . The Crimes Act, 19C0, is amended by omitting paragraph two of the proviso to section four hundred and seven and by inserting in lieu thereof the following new paragraph :—

(2) The failure of an accused person or of the

wife or husband, as the case may be, of an accused

person to give evidence, shall not be made the

subject of any comment by the judge or by counsel

Where two or more persons are being tried together, and comment is made, by or on behalf of any of them, upon the failure of any of them, or of the husband or wife, as the case may be, of any of them, to give evidence, the judge may make such observations to the jury in regard to such comment or such failure to give evidence as he thinks lit. GAS

for the Crown.