Local Government (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1934

Admissibility in evidence of books of existing board.

20.—(1) All books and other documents directed or authorised by or under any statute to be kept by the existing board and which immediately before the appointed day would be receivable in evidence shall, notwithstanding the abolition of the existing board or the transfer of functions from the existing board by or under this Act, be admitted in evidence after the appointed day as fully as if the dividing order had not been made.

(2) Whenever an extract from or certificate of the contents of any book or other document directed or authorised by or under any statute to be kept by the existing board in the exercise of any functions other than the relief of the poor would, if verified in a particular manner by a particular officer of the existing board, have been admissible immediately before the appointed day as evidence of such contents, an extract from or certificate of the contents of such book or document shall, if verified in such particular manner by the officer of the council or of the board of health of a new district corresponding to such particular officer, be admitted on or after the appointed day as evidence of such contents to the same extent as such first mentioned extract or certificate would have been so admitted if the dividing order had not been made.