Article 8 Registers and similar records required to be maintained

This article applies to a new authority (“a relevant authority”) which does not, or will not, receive from an existing authority all of the material comprised in any register maintained by the existing authority so far as relevant to the area of the new authority.

Upon giving reasonable notice, a relevant authority (acting through any authorised officer) shall at all reasonable times be entitled to access to such material as is referred to in paragraph (1) which it has not received, or will not receive, whether in the possession of an existing authority or new authority, to enable copies to be taken or information extracted.

In fulfilling its obligation to maintain a register, a relevant authority may incorporate with any material copied or extracted in accordance with paragraph (2) a certificate that it is a true copy of, or extract from, the register from which it has been copied or extracted and thereafter the certified copy or extract may be maintained as the register or, as the case may be, part of the register, that the relevant authority is required to maintain.

Nothing in this article shall affect the operation of any other provision in relation to any register which a relevant authority is required to maintain.

For the purposes of this article “register” means any register, map, list or other document of whatever form and in whatever medium which a local authority is required to maintain.