SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 Documentary Evidence in Criminal Proceedings

Documents kept by businesses etc.

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Unless the court otherwise directs, a document may in any criminal proceedings be taken to be a document kept by a business or undertaking or by or on behalf of the holder of a paid or unpaid office if it is certified as such by a docquet in the prescribed form and purporting to be authenticated, in such manner as may be prescribed—

a

by a person authorised to authenticate such a docquet on behalf of the business or undertaking by which; or

b

by, or by a person authorised to authenticate such a docquet on behalf of, the office-holder by whom,

the document was kept.