Article K8 Photographic copies of documents

Subject to paragraph (6) below, any requirement imposed by any enactment that the Authority shall keep a document of any description shall be satisfied by its keeping a photographic copy of the document.

Subject to paragraph (6) below, any requirement imposed by an enactment that a document of any description in the custody or under the control of the Authority shall be made available for inspection shall be satisfied by it making available for inspection a photographic copy of the document.

In legal proceedings a photographic copy of a document in the custody of the Authority, or of a document which has been destroyed while in the custody of the Authority, or of any part of any such document, shall, subject to paragraph (5) below, be admissible in evidence to the like extent as the original.

A certificate purporting to be signed by the proper officer of the Authority that a document is such a photographic copy as is mentioned in paragraph (3) above, shall, subject to paragraph (6) below, be evidence to that effect.

The court before which a photographic copy is tendered in evidence in pursuance of paragraph (3) above may, if the original is in existence, require its production and thereupon that paragraph shall not apply to the copy.

A photographic copy of a document in colour where the colours are relevant to the interpretation of the document shall not suffice for the purpose of this article unless it so distinguishes between the colours as to enable the document to be interpreted.

In this article “court” and “legal proceedings” have the same meanings as in the Civil Evidence Act 1968^f1.