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Registers of licences.
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23.—(1) The Official Censor shall establish and maintain a register in the prescribed form of the wholesale licences for the time being in force and a register of the retail licences for the time being in force (which shall be known, respectively, as the Register of Video Recording Wholesale Licences and the Register of Video Recording Retail Licences).
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(2) The Official Censor may, as occasion requires, amend or delete entries in the registers.
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(3) (a) Members of the public may inspect the registers free of charge at all reasonable times and may take copies of, or of extracts from, entries in the registers.
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(b) In any proceedings a certificate signed by the Official Censor or by a person authorised by him and stating—
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(i) that he has examined one of the registers, and
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(ii) that that register shows that on the date or during the period specified in the certificate a wholesale licence, or, as the case may be, a retail licence, in favour of a specified person was not in force or was not in force in relation to specified premises,
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shall be admissible as evidence of the fact that a wholesale licence, or, as the case may be, a retail licence, in favour of the specified person was not in force or, as the case may be, was not in force in relation to the specified premises on the date or, as the case may be, during the period aforesaid.
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(c) In any proceedings a certificate signed by the Official Censor or by a person authorised by him and stating—
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(i) that he has examined one of the registers, and
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(ii) that that register shows that on the date or during the period specified in the certificate a wholesale licence, or, as the case may be, a retail licence, in favour of a specified person was in force or was in force in relation to specified premises, and
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(iii) that a document identified by and attached to the certificate is a copy of the licence in force as aforesaid,
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shall be admissible as evidence of the fact that a wholesale licence, or, as the case may be, a retail licence, in favour of the specified person was in force or, as the case may be, was in force in relation to the specified premises on the date or, as the case may be, during the period aforesaid and of the terms of the licence.
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(d) A document purporting to be a certificate under paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection shall be deemed to be such a certificate, and to have been signed by the person purporting to have signed it (and, in the case of such a document purporting to have been signed by a person authorised by the Official Censor, to have been signed in accordance with the authorisation), unless the contrary is shown.
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