Section 444Part 18 — LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Inspection and admissibility in evidence of copies of certain documents
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Where, under any enactment, a document is open to public inspection when in custody of the Chief Executive Officer —
there may be supplied for public inspection a copy or other reproduction of the document instead of the original; but
the original shall, nevertheless, be made available for public inspection if the copy or other reproduction is illegible.
Where the Chief Executive Officer destroys any document which has been sent to the Chief Executive Officer under or by virtue of any enactment and keeps a copy or other reproduction of that document, then —
any enactment providing for that document to be admissible in evidence or open to public inspection; and
in the case of a document falling within subsection (1), that subsection,
shall apply to the copy or other reproduction as if it were the original.
For the purposes of this section, and of section 443(2) in its application to documents in the custody of the Chief Executive Officer, a copy is to be taken to be the copy of a document notwithstanding that it is taken from a copy or other reproduction of the original.
Cross References
- Section 443 of Merchant Shipping Act
section 443(2)