Tithe Act 1951

7 Records and other documents: proof and right to inspection and copies

(1) The Commission shall cause proper records to be kept of determinations, ascertainments and orders made by them, and any entry in any book or other document kept for the purposes of this subsection or of subsection (4) of section thirty-nine of the principal Act shall in all legal proceedings be evidence of the determination, ascertainment or order referred to and of the regularity thereof.

(2) Instruments of apportionment, deeds or declarations of merger under the Tithe Acts, annuities registers sealed under section one of this Act and the maps therein referred to, declarations sealed under that section, and records kept as aforesaid shall be open to inspection by any person during all usual office hours, and any person may require a copy thereof, or extract therefrom, to be furnished to him, and may require any such copy or extract to be certified by an officer of the Commission, and there shall be paid for any such copy or extract such reasonable fee as may be prescribed.

(3) A copy of, or extract from, any document issued or kept by or in the custody of the Commission under or for the purposes of the principal Act or this Act, being a copy or extract upon which is endorsed a certificate signed by an officer of the Commission stating that it is a true copy or extract, shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the document in question, and a certificate purporting to be so signed shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be so signed.

(4) The preceding provisions of this section shall have effect in substitution for subsection (4) of section thirty-nine, subsection (2) of section forty-two, and section forty-three, of the principal Act.