Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977)

Without limiting any other protection applying to it, a communication by audio link or audiovisual link, or a document transmitted between an accused person and his or her legal representative as provided for in section 159B(3), is confidential and inadmissible in any proceedings as if the communication took place or the document was produced while they were in the presence of each other.

[Section 159D inserted by section 1 of Act No. 65 of 2008 in respect of certain magisterial districts]