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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/513",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules) 1996",
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  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "26.1",
  "heading": "Authentication of copies of documents",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 8 to the Act of 1995 (production of copy documents), a copy, or a copy of a material part, of a document shall be authenticated—\n(a) by a person who is—\n(i) the author of the original of it;\n(ii) a person in, or who has been in, possession and control of the original of it or a copy of it; or\n(iii) the authorised representative of the person in, or who has been in, possession and control of the original of it or a copy of it; and\n(b) by means of a signed certificate, certifying the copy as a true copy, which may be in Form 26.1-A—\n(i) endorsed on the copy; or\n(ii) attached to the copy.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 8 to Act of 1995 (documents kept by businesses etc.), a document shall be certified by a docquet in Form 26.1-B—\n(a) endorsed on the document; or\n(b) attached to the document.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 8 to the Act of 1995 (statements not contained in business documents), a certificate shall be in Form 26.1-C.\n(4) In this Chapter a reference to a certificate or docquet being endorsed on, or attached to, a copy of a document includes endorsement or attachment by electronic means.",
  "extent": "S",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 26.1(4) inserted (22.3.2021) by Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (Electronic Authentication of Copy Documents) 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/116), paras. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 26.1 in force at 1.4.1996, see para. 1(1)"
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