Central Bank Act, 1989.

Keeping of documents.

18.—(1) No provision of the National Debt Act, 1870, or of the Central Bank Acts, 1942 to 1989, shall be construed as requiring the Bank to preserve any document or other record for a period of more than 6 years after the latest date of the period to which such document or other record relates and no regulation under section 17 of the Finance Act, 1911, or section 37 of the Finance Act, 1917, shall provide for the preservation of such document or other record for a period of more than the said 6 years.

(2) A document or other record to which subsection (1) refers may be kept in whole or in part by recording otherwise than in a legible form so long as the recording is capable of being reproduced in a legible form.

(3) In any legal proceedings, a copy or reproduction in legible form of any entry in a document or other record kept, or formerly kept, by the Bank shall be received as evidence of such entry or of the matters therein recorded where such document or other record has been destroyed or is kept by the Bank otherwise than in a legible form.