Section 82 Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

Section 82 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is about
Part VIII— interpretation. It provides as follows:

(1)In this Part of this Act—

“confession”, includes any statement wholly or partly adverse to the person who made it, whether made to a person in authority or not and whether made in words or otherwise;
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“proceedings” means criminal proceedings, including service proceedings;
“Service court” means the Court Martial or the Service Civilian Court.

(1A)In subsection (1) “service proceedings” means proceedings before a court (other than a civilian court) in respect of a service offence; and “service offence” and “civilian court” here have the same meanings as in the Armed Forces Act 2006.

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(3) Nothing in this Part of this Act shall prejudice any power of a court to exclude evidence (whether by preventing questions from being put or otherwise) at its discretion.

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