Tokyo Convention Act 1967

6 Provisions as to documentary evidence

(1) In any legal proceedings—

(a) a document purporting to be certified by such authority or person as may be designated for the purpose by regulations made by the Board of Trade as being, or being a true copy of, or of part of, a document issued or record kept in pursuance of—

(i) an Order in Council made under section 8 of the [1949 c. 67.] Civil Aviation Act 1949; or

(ii) the [1960 c. 38.] Civil Aviation (Licensing) Act 1960 or this Act,

by, or by the Minister in charge of, a government department, by an official of a government department who is specified for the purpose in any such Order in Council, or by the Air Registration Board or the Air Transport Licensing Board; or

(b) a document printed by Her Majesty's Stationery Office and purporting to be the publication known as the " United Kingdom Air Pilot" or a publication of the series known as " Notam—United Kingdom ",

shall be evidence, and in Scotland sufficient evidence, of the matters appearing from that document.

(2) Section 5 of the [1962 c. 8.] Civil Aviation (Eurocontrol) Act 1962 (which relates to the use as evidence of certain records of the position of an aircraft or of any message or signal transmitted to or received from an aircraft) shall apply to any legal proceedings ; and the authorities or persons to be designated for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section shall, instead of being designated as mentioned in subsection (2) of that section, be designated in all cases by regulations made under this subsection by the Board of Trade; and—

(a) the said subsection (2) is hereby repealed ; but

(b) any provision made by regulations or Order in Council by virtue of that subsection and in force immediately before the commencement of this subsection shall continue in force as if contained in regulations made by the Board of Trade under this subsection until varied or revoked by regulations so made.

(3) Any regulations made under this section shall be made by statutory instrument and be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.