Cap. 284 Art. 4Substance of proceedings may be recorded.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of article 3 and of any other law, the court may order that only the substance of proceedings or of the evidence produced during proceedings, as dictated by the court, be recorded by electro-magnetic means.

(2) Where the court has ordered that the substance only of the evidence of any witness be recorded by electro-magnetic means and such summary is dictated by the court in the presence of the witness, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law requiring that the transcript thereof shall be read over by the witness during or after the sitting and that a note of such reading be made at the foot of such script, such reading over shall be dispensed with, and the transcript shall be deemed to have been duly read over and confirmed by the witness, provided that the court shall make at the end of such summary a declaration that the substance of the evidence has been dictated by the court in the presence of the witness.