(1)Section 32 of the 1980 Act (evidence by letter of request or on commission) shall be amended as follows.
(2)After subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(3A)Where any such record as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) above, or any part of such record, is not a document in writing, that record or part shall not be received in evidence under subsection (3) above unless it is accompanied by a transcript of its contents.”.
(3)After subsection (5) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(5A)In subsections (2) and (3) above, “record” includes, in addition to a document in writing—
(a)any disc, tape, soundtrack or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are recorded so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced therefrom; and
(b)any film (including microfilm), negative, tape, disc or other device in which one or more visual images are recorded so as to be capable (as aforesaid) of being reproduced therefrom.”.