{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-evidence-scotland-act-1988/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-evidence-scotland-act-1988/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/32",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Evidence (Scotland) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-evidence-scotland-act-1988",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Document as part of business records.",
  "text": "(1) Unless the court otherwise directs, a document may in any civil proceedings be taken to form part of the records of a business or undertaking if it is certified as such by a docquet purporting to be signed by an officer of the business or undertaking to which the records belong; and a statement contained in any document certified as aforesaid may be received in evidence without being spoken to by a witness.\n(2) For the purposes of this section, a facsimile of a signature shall be treated as a signature.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/32/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:57.539677+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}