Part II Criminal Procedure
Evidential provisions
30 Routine evidence.
(1)
Schedule 9 to the 1995 Act (routine evidence) shall be amended in accordance with F1subsection (3) below.
F2(2)
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(3)
“A person authorised to do so by the Secretary of State, being a person who has examined the record maintained in pursuance of arrangements made by the designated authority and in the case of a certificate in terms of—
(a) sub-paragraph (a) in column 3, the video work mentioned in that sub-paragraph;
(b) sub-paragraph (b) in that column, both video works mentioned in that sub-paragraph.
That the record shows any of the following—
(a) in respect of a video work (or part of a video work) contained in a video recording identified by the certificate, that by a date specified no classification certificate had been issued;
(b) in respect of a video work which is the subject of a certificate under sub-paragraph (a) above, that the video work differs in a specified way from another video work contained in a video recording identified in the certificate under this sub-paragraph and that, on a date specified, a classification certificate was issued in respect of that other video work;
(c) that, by a date specified, no classification certificate had been issued in respect of a video work having a particular title;
(d) that, on a date specified, a classification certificate was issued in respect of a video work having a particular title and that a document which is identified in the certificate under this sub-paragraph is a copy of the classification certificate so issued;
expressions used in column 2, or in this column, of this entry being construed in accordance with that Act; and in each of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) above “specified” means specified in the certificate under that sub-paragraph.”.
(4)
Section 5 of the M2Video Recordings Act 1993 shall cease to have effect.
(5)
In Schedule 22 of the M3Environment Act 1995 (minor and consequential amendments), paragraph 35 shall cease to have effect.