Section 71 Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

Section 71 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is about Microfilm copies. It provides as follows:

In any proceedings the contents of a document may (whether or not the document is still in existence) be proved by the production of an enlargement of a microfilm copy of that document or of the material part of it, authenticated in such manner as the court may approve.

… concerned are proceedings before a magistrates’ court inquiring into an offence as examining justices this section shall have effect with the omission of the words “authenticated in such manner as the court may approve.”

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