Regulation 5 Publication of the Code

(1)

The Code must be made available to the public, with or without payment, in whatever way the Panel thinks appropriate.

(2)

A person is not to be taken to have contravened a rule if he shows that at the time of the alleged contravention the Code had not been made available as required by paragraph (1).

(3)

The production of a document purporting to be a printed copy of the Code endorsed with a certificate signed by an officer of the Panel authorised by it for that purpose and stating—

(a)

that it is a true copy of the Code, and

(b)

that on a specified date the Code was made available to the public as required by paragraph (1),

is evidence (or in Scotland sufficient evidence) of the facts contained in the certificate.

(4)

A certificate purporting to be signed as mentioned in paragraph (3) is to be treated as having been properly signed unless the contrary is shown.

(5)

A person who wishes in any legal proceedings to rely on the Code may require the Panel to endorse a copy of the Code with a certificate of the kind mentioned in paragraph (3).