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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/9",
  "legislation_title": "Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "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—\n(a) by a person authorised to authenticate such a docquet on behalf of the business or undertaking by which; or\n(b) by, or by a person authorised to authenticate such a docquet on behalf of, the office-holder by whom,\nthe document was kept.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/9/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:16.864603+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}