Paragraph 8 Registers and similar records required to be maintained.

This paragraph applies where the Authority does not, or will not, receive from a New Forest local authority all of the material comprised in any register maintained by that local authority so far as relevant to the New Forest National Park.

Upon giving reasonable notice, the Authority shall at all reasonable times be entitled to access to such material as is referred to in sub-paragraph (1) which it has not received, or will not receive, to enable copies to be taken or information extracted.

In fulfilling its obligation to maintain a register, the Authority may incorporate with any material copied or extracted in accordance with sub-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 Authority is required to maintain.

Nothing in this paragraph shall affect the operation of any other provision in relation to any register which the Authority is required to maintain.

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