Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act, 1997

Admissibility in evidence of documents of Custom House Docks Development Authority.

54.—(1) All books and other documents directed or authorised by or under any enactment to be kept by the Custom House Docks Development Authority and which, immediately before the establishment day, would be receivable in evidence shall, notwithstanding the dissolution of that Authority, be admitted in evidence on or after the establishment day as if this Act had not been enacted.

(2) Whenever an extract from or certificate of the contents of any book or other document directed or authorised by or under any enactment to be kept by the Custom House Docks Development Authority would, if verified in a particular manner by a particular officer of that Authority, have been admissible immediately before the establishment day as evidence of those contents, an extract from or certificate of the contents of that book or document shall, if verified in such particular manner by an officer of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove) authorised by the Authority in that behalf, be admitted, on or after the establishment day, as evidence of such contents to the same extent as such first-mentioned extract or certificate would have been so admitted if this Act had not been enacted.

(3) A copy of or extract from any document referred to in subsection (1) produced by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority and certified to be a true copy under the hand of an officer of that Authority (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove) authorised by the Authority for that purpose shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document and no process for compelling the production of any such document by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority shall issue from any court except with the leave of that court.