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Evidential status of lists and annual editions of instruments and entries in themS

10.—(1) In any legal proceedings—

(a)a copy of a Scottish Statutory Instruments Issue List, printed under regulation 12, is to be received in evidence as a true copy; and

(b)an entry in any copy of a Scottish Statutory Instruments Issue List that has been received in evidence as a true copy is to be treated as conclusive evidence of the date on which a copy of the instrument to which the entry refers was first published by the Queen’s Printer.

(2) In paragraph (1) references to a copy of a Scottish Statutory Instruments Issue List includes any copy printed (in whole or in part) in an annual edition.