PART VIIILEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE

Legal proceedings

119Evidence of resolutions, etc.

Save as otherwise provided in any statutory provision, production of a copy of or of any part of—

(a)

any minute of a meeting of a council or of a committee of a council; or

(b)

any resolution passed by a council or by a committee of a council; or

(c)

any standing orders made by a council;

upon which is endorsed a certificate purporting to be signed by the clerk of the council stating that—

  1. (i)

    the copy of, or of part of, the minute of the meeting is a true copy; or

  2. (ii)

    the resolution was passed at a specified meeting of the council or, as the case may be, the committee, or was so passed as a special resolution; or

  3. (iii)

    the standing orders were made in accordance with any statutory provision applicable thereto;

shall be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate and that in the case of a resolution passed by a committee, the committee had power to pass such a resolution, without proof of the handwriting or official position of any person purporting to sign a certificate in pursuance of this section.