Section 184: Deposition, document or deed made or executed before investigating authority may be recorded in audio-visual means

1) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, the investigating authority may, in the following circumstance, record, or cause to be recorded, the deposition, document or deed of a victim of an offence, informant or witness through any audio-visual means, in the presence of the government attorney:

(a) If the investigating authority has a reasonable reason to believe that the accused may, by way of putting undue influence on, or showing fear, terror, intimidation or threat to the victim of an offence, the informant or any witness, prevent such victim, informant or witness from appearing before the court or compel him or her to make statement or deposition contrary to the statement or document which he or she has made or executed before the investigating authority, in spite of his or her appearance in the court,

(b) If such person, informant or witness is, owing to physical infirmity or being a child, not able to appear before the police office or government attorney office,

(c) If anything, to be submitted to the court as evidence cannot be taken to the court from the place where that thing is situated.

2) The court may admit in evidence the audio-video means recorded pursuant to sub-section (1).