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Changes over time for: Section 289


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289 Inspection and admissibility in evidence of copies of certain documents.U.K.
(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.
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