Section 23 BSA: fact discovered, may be proved

(1) No confession made to a police officer shall be proved as against a person accused of any offence. (2) No confession made by any person while he is in the custody of a police officer, unless it is made in the immediate presence of a Magistrate shall be proved against him: When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant. Admissions in civil cases when relevant. Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding. Confession to police officer. Provided that when any fact is deposed to as discovered in consequence of information received from a person accused of any offence, in the custody of a police officer, so much of such information, whether it amounts to a confession or not, as relates distinctly to the