9(1)The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In section 72(1) (interpretation of provisions relating to documentary evidence), for the definition of “copy” and “statement” substitute—
““copy”, in relation to a document, means anything onto which information recorded in the document has been copied, by whatever means and whether directly or indirectly, and “statement” means any representation of fact, however made; and”.
(3)In section 118(1) (general interpretation), in the definition of “document”, for “has the same meaning as in Part I of the Civil Evidence Act 1968” substitute “ means anything in which information of any description is recorded. ”.