SCHEDULES
C1SCHEDULE 1 The Forestry Commission and its Staff
Part I Administration
The Commissioners
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Every document purporting to be an order or other instrument issued by the Commissioners and to be sealed with the seal of the Commissioners authenticated in manner provided by paragraph 4(2) above, or to be signed by the secretary to the Commissioners or any person authorised by the Commissioners to act on behalf of the secretary, shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such order or instrument without further proof, unless the contrary is shown.
2
The M1Documentary Evidence Act 1868, as amended by the M2Documentary Evidence Act 1882, shall apply to the Commissioners as though the Commissioners were included in the first column of the Schedule to the said Act of 1868, and the chairman or any other Commissioner, or the secretary, or any person authorised to act on behalf of the secretary, were mentioned in the second column of that Schedule, and as if the regulations referred to in those Acts included any document issued by the Commissioners.
Sch. 1: functions exercisable by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales acting jointly transferred (27.3.2002) to the Secretary of State by The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794), art. 3(5) (with art. 6)