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VEHICLES (EXCISE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 30

1964 c.21

30.(1) A statement contained in a document purporting to be

(a)a part of the records maintained by the Ministry in connection with any
functions exercisable by the Ministry by virtue of this Act; or

(b)a copy of a document forming part of those records; or

(c)a note of any information contained in those records;

(2) In this section

"document" includes, in addition to a document in writing

(a)any map, plan, graph or drawing;

(b)any photograph;

(c)any disc, tape, sound track or other device in which sounds or other data
(not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without
the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced therefrom; and

(d)any film, negative, tape or other device in which one or more visual images
are embodied so as to be capable (as aforesaid) of being reproduced therefrom;

"film" includes a microfilm;

"statement" includes any representation of fact, whether made in words or
otherwise.

(3) In this section, any reference to a copy of a document includes

(a)in the case of a document falling within paragraph (c) but not (d) of the
definition of "document" in subsection (2), a transcript of the sounds or
other data embodied therein;

(b)in the case of a document falling within paragraph (d) but not (c) of that
definition, a reproduction or still reproduction of the image or images
embodied therein, whether enlarged or not;

(c)in the case of a document falling within both those paragraphs, such a
transcript together with such a still reproduction; and

(d)in the case of a document not falling within the said paragraph (d) of
which a visual image is embodied in a document falling within that paragraph,
a reproduction of that image, whether enlarged or not,

(4) Nothing in this section shall enable evidence to be given with respect to
any matter other than a matter of a prescribed description.


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