# Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, Paragraph 4


Unless the court otherwise directs, a document may in any criminal proceedings be taken to be a document kept by a business or undertaking or by or on behalf of the holder of a paid or unpaid office if it is certified as such by a docquet in the prescribed form and purporting to be authenticated, in such manner as may be prescribed—
(a) by a person authorised to authenticate such a docquet on behalf of the business or undertaking by which; or
(b) by, or by a person authorised to authenticate such a docquet on behalf of, the office-holder by whom,
the document was kept.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/schedule/8/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/schedule-8/paragraph-4
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