311.Subsection (4) inserts section 286A into the 1995 Act. It provides that a certificate with the official seal of a Minister of the Member State in question containing particulars relating to a conviction extracted from the criminal records of that State, including copies of fingerprints that are certified as appearing from those records to have been taken from the person convicted on the occasion of the conviction, or the occasion of his last conviction, and which would be admissible in evidence in criminal proceedings in the State in question as a record of the skin of that person’s fingers, will be sufficient evidence of the conviction and all preceding convictions. Such information as is provided can then be received in evidence in a similar way to that provided for by section 285 of the 1995 Act for UK previous convictions. Subsection 4(4) applies section 285(9) to this new section. Section 285(9) provides that the methods of proving a previous conviction authorised by the section are to be in addition to any other method of proof.
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