Paragraph 23

Section 96 (use of records and documentary evidence) shall be amended as follows:

(a)

in subsection (1):

(i)

after the word “made” there shall be inserted “or having effect as if made”;

(ii)

after the words “Secretary of State” there shall be inserted “under this subsection as it has effect in the United Kingdom”;

(iii)

before the words “or by the Air Registration” there shall be inserted “or by the Committee”; and

(iv)

the words “and in Scotland sufficient evidence” shall be omitted;

(b)

in subsection (2):

(i)

after the words “regulations made” there shall be inserted “or having effect as if made”;

(ii)

after the words “Secretary of State” there shall be inserted “under this subsection as it has effect in the United Kingdom”; and

(iii)

the words “and in Scotland sufficient evidence” shall be omitted;

(c)

in subsection (4) paragraph (a) and the words “on conviction on indictment” in paragraph (b) shall be omitted; and

(d)

for subsection (5) there shall be substituted:

“(5)

In this section “record” includes in addition to a record in writing —

(a)

any disc, tape, sound-track or other device in which sounds or signals are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other instrument) of being reproduced therefrom;

(b)

any film, tape or other device in which visual images are embodied so as to be capable (as aforesaid) of being reproduced therefrom; and

(c)

any photograph;

and any reference to a copy of a record includes in the case of a record falling within paragraph (a) only of this definition, a transcript of the sounds or signals embodied therein, in the case of a record falling within paragraph (b) only of this definition, a still reproduction of the images embodied therein, and in the case of a record falling within both those paragraphs, such a transcript together with a still reproduction.”.