# Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, Paragraph 36

Extent: E+W

In section 13 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (admissibility of records as evidence) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (6)—
“(7) Where the proceedings mentioned in subsection (2) above are proceedings before a magistrates’ court inquiring into an offence as examining justices this section shall have effect as if—
(a) in subsection (2) the words “to the same extent as oral evidence of that fact is admissible in those proceedings” were omitted;
(b) in subsection (4) the word “and” were inserted at the end of paragraph (a);
(c) in subsection (4), paragraphs (c) and (d) and the words “as if the accused had appeared and admitted it” were omitted.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/25/schedule/1/paragraph/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-36
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