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| Investigating officers |
177. The following persons may, subject to section 178, serve as investigating officers:
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| Restriction on powers of investigating officers |
| General powers of investigating officers |
179.—(1) An investigating officer may —
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| Witnesses |
180.—(1) Any witness before an investigating officer is bound to state truly the facts and circumstances with which he or she is acquainted concerning the matter under investigation and must answer every question put to him or her in the course of the investigation provided that he or she may decline to make a statement which may incriminate him or her.
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| Admissibility of statements |
181.—(1) Subject to this section, no statement made by any person to an investigating officer in the course of an investigation may be used as evidence at his trial.
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| Circumstances in which inferences may be drawn from accused’s failure to mention particular facts when informed that accused may be prosecuted for an offence |
182.—(1) Where, in any proceedings in a subordinate military court against a person subject to military law for an offence, evidence is given that the accused on being officially informed that he or she may be prosecuted for the offence, failed to mention any fact, which in the circumstances existing at the time he or she could reasonably have been expected to mention when so informed, the subordinate military court, in determining whether there is a case to answer, and in determining whether the accused is guilty of the offence charged, may draw any inferences from the failure that appear proper.
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