Paragraph 4

Scotland

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.

Notes on Schedule 3

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 3 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40, ss. 4, 6, 7(2), Sch. 3 Pt. II paras. 16(3), 17, Sch. 5 and Sch. 3 para. 8