Control of Horses Act, 1996
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Registers. |
11.—(1) A register may be prepared, established and maintained in a form that is not legible if it is capable of being converted into a permanent legible form. | |
(2) A register shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any person on payment of a fee of such amount (if any) as may from time to time be fixed by the local authority in whose functional area it is maintained. | ||
(3) A person shall be entitled to obtain a copy of or extract from (including in the case of information in non-legible form, a copy of or extract from such an entry in permanent legible form) an entry in a register on payment of a fee of £5 or such other amount as may for the time being be fixed by the local authority in whose functional area it is maintained. | ||
(4) Every document purporting to be a copy of or extract from an entry in a register and purporting to be certified by an officer of the local authority concerned (in the case of a register maintained under section 24 or 42 (1)) or a member of the Garda Síochána (in the case of a register maintained under section 42 (2)) to be a true copy of or extract from such entry shall, without proof of the signature of the officer or member purporting to so certify or that the person was such officer or member, be received in evidence in any legal proceedings and shall, until the contrary is shown, be deemed to be a true copy of or extract from such entry and be evidence of the terms of such entry. | ||
(5) In this section “a register” means a register established and maintained under this Act. |