# Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980, Section 21: Transcripts.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Rules of court may provide—
(a) for the making of a record (whether by means of short-hand notes, by mechanical means or otherwise) of any proceedings in respect of which an appeal lies (with or without leave) to the Court of Appeal under this Part of this Act;
(b) for the making and verification of a transcript of any such record and for supplying the transcript, on payment of such charge, if any, as may be fixed for the time being by the Department of Finance and Personnel, to the Master for the use of the Court or any judge thereof, and to such other persons and in such circumstances as may be prescribed.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1) above, the Department of Justice may, if it thinks fit in any case, direct that a transcript shall be made of any such record made in pursuance of the rules and shall be supplied to it.
(3) The cost—
(a) of making any such record in pursuance of the rules; and
(b) of making and supplying in pursuance of this section any transcript ordered to be supplied to the Master or the Department of Justice,
shall be defrayed, in accordance with scales of payment fixed for the time being by the Department of Finance and Personnel, by the Department of Justice, and the cost of providing and installing at any court any equipment required for the purpose of making any such record or transcript shall also be defrayed by the Department of Justice.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/47/section/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-northern-ireland-act-1980/section-21
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