Rule 27 Certification and control of mechanical recordings

Where any proceedings in respect of which an appeal lies to the Court are recorded in whole or in part by mechanical means the person who operated the recording machine shall deliver the recordings so made to the Clerk of the Crown and Peace after he has certified, by means of a certificate attached to each recording, that it is a complete recording or a continuous part of a complete recording taken at the trial or proceedings to which it relates.

The Clerk of the Crown and Peace shall retain any recording delivered to him under this rule until he forwards it to the Registrar when directed to do so or until he destroys it on a direction in writing from the Registrar.

No direction for the destruction of any such recording shall be given unless the consent of the Minister has first been obtained.