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(1)The following provisions F1 shall have effect with respect to evidence in proceedings under this Act,whether before a court-martial, a civil court or otherwise.
(2)A document purporting to be a copy of the attestation paper signed by any person and to be certifiedto be a true copy by a person stated in the certificate to have the custody of the attestation paper shallbe evidence of the enlistment of the person attested.
(3)The attestation paper purporting to be signed by a person on his enlistment shall be evidence of hishaving given the answers to questions which he is therein recorded as having given.
(4)A letter, return or other document stating that any person—
(a)was or was not serving at any specified time or during any specified period in any part of Her Majesty’sforces or was discharged from any part of those forces at or before any specified time, or
(b)held or did not hold at any specified time any specified rank or appointment in any of those forces,or had at or before any specified time been attached, posted or transferred to any part of those forces,or at any specified time or during any specified period was or was not serving or held or did not hold anyrank or appointment in any particular country or place, or
(c)was or was not at any specified time authorised to use or wear any decoration, badge, wound stripe oremblem,
shall, if purporting to be issued by or on behalf of [F2the Defence Council], F3, or by a person authorised by F3 them, be evidence of the matters stated in the document.
(5)A record made in any service book or other document prescribed by Queen’s Regulations for the purposesof this subsection, being a record made in pursuance of any Act or of Queen’s Regulations, or otherwise inpursuance of military duty, and purporting to be signed by the commanding officer or by any person whoseduty it was to make the record, shall be evidence of the facts stated therein; and a copy of a record(including the signature thereto) in [F4any such book or other document as aforesaid], purporting to be certified to be a true copy by a person stated in the certificate to have thecustody of the book [F5or other document], shall be evidence of the record.
(6)A document purporting to be issued by order of [F2the Defence Council] and to contain instructions or regulations given or made by [F2the Defence Council] shall be evidence of the giving of the instructions or making of the regulations and of theircontents.
(7)A certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of [F2the Defence Council], or by a person authorised by F3 them, and stating—
(a)that a decoration of a description specified in or annexed to the certificate is a military, naval orair-force decoration, or
(b)that a badge, wound stripe or emblem of a description specified in or annexed to the certificate is onesupplied or authorised by [F2the Defence Council],
shall be evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.
(8)A certificate purporting to be signed by a person’s commanding officer or any officer authorised by himto give the certificate, and stating the contents of, or of any part of, standing orders or other routineorders of a continuing nature made for—
(a)any formation or unit or [F6body of Her Majesty’s forces], or
(b)any command or other area, garrison or place, or
(c)any ship, train or aircraft,
shall in proceedings against the said person be evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.
(9)Any document which would be evidence in any proceedings under the M1Air Force Act1955, by virtue of section one hundred and ninety-eight of that Act shall in like manner, subject to thelike conditions, and for the like purpose be evidence in the like proceedings under this Act.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), s. 119(2), Sch.7 Pt. III
F2Words substituted by S.I. 1964/488, Sch. 1 Pt. I
F3Words repealed by S.I. 1964/488, Sch. 1 Pt. I
F4Words substituted by Army and Air Force Act 1961 (c. 52), Sch. 2
F5Words inserted by Army and Air Force Act 1961 (c. 52), Sch. 2
F6Words substituted by Armed Forces Act 1971 (c. 33), s. 78(4), Sch. 1 para. 1(8)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 198(8)(c) extended by S.I. 1972/971, art. 4, Sch. 1
Marginal Citations
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F7Act: the provisions of the 1955 Acts providing for findings of courts-martial to be subject to confirmation and to revision at the direction of the confirming officer cease to have effect (1.4.1997 subject to art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of 1996 c. 46, s. 15; S.I. 1997/304, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 2
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