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Section 13 Additional provisions relating to local administration.

England and Wales

(1)

In any legal proceedings any document purporting to be a document issued by a divisional executive and to be signed by a person authorised by the executive to sign it shall be received in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be the document which it purports to be and to be signed by the person by whom it purports to have been signed without proof of his identity, signature or official capacity.

(2)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Ss. 12, 13(2) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(2), 583(2), Sch. 38, Pt.I (with ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39)