Noncompliance with recording provisions: courts may probe defects and admit statements if no prejudice to the accused. Where a court finds that the Magistrate did not comply with sections 183 or 316 when recording a confession or other statement, it may take evidence about that non-compliance and, if satisfied that the non-compliance did not prejudice the accused's defence and that the accused made the statement, admit the statement; this power also applies to courts of appeal, reference and revision.