Part XII

Legal Proceedings

Special evidential provisions

Inspection and admissibility in evidence of copies of certain documents.
289
1
Where under any enactment a document is open to public inspection when in the custody of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen—
a
there may be supplied for public inspection a copy or other reproduction of the document instead of the original; but
b
the original shall nevertheless be made available for public inspection if the copy or other reproduction is illegible.
2
Where the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen destroys any document which has been sent to him under or by virtue of any enactment, and keeps a copy or other reproduction of that document, then—
a
any enactment providing for that document to be admissible in evidence or open to public inspection, and
b
in the case of a document falling within subsection (1) above, that subsection,
shall apply to the copy or other reproduction as if it were the original.
3
For the purposes of this section, and of section 288(2) in its application to documents in the custody of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, a copy is to be taken to be the copy of a document notwithstanding that it is taken from a copy or other reproduction of the original.
Pt. XII (Ss. 274-291) applied (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 22, ss. 7(1), 9(4)