Planning and Development Act 2024

Proof of register and documents

387. (1) Every document purporting to be a copy of an entry in the register or a document referred to in section 383 or 385 and purporting to be certified by a member of staff of the planning authority, the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority or the Commission, as the case may be, to be a true copy of the entry or document shall, without proof of the signature of the person purporting so to certify, or that he or she was such a member of staff, be received in evidence in any legal proceedings and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be a true copy of the entry or document and to be evidence of the terms of the entry or document.

(2) Evidence of an entry in the register may be given by production of a copy thereof certified under this section and it shall not be necessary to produce the register itself.