Sexual cases complaints

(1) The particulars and details of a complaint made soon after the commission of an alleged offence in the absence of an accused person by the person in respect of whom the crime is alleged to have been committed may be admitted in evidence in prosecutions for rape, indecent assault, other offences against women and boys and offences of indecency between male persons. (2) Such particulars and details are not to be taken in proof of the facts in issue, but merely as showing the consistency of the conduct of the person complaining and supporting his credibility. 55