Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023
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Transmission of documents | ||
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6. (1) Where the Minister is required to forward a document or provide information to the competent authority of an executing state or an issuing state for the purposes of Part 2 or 3 or section 73 , the Minister shall transmit the document or provide the information concerned by any means (including delivery) capable of producing a record in writing under conditions allowing the competent authority to establish the authenticity of the document or the information. | ||
(2) Subsection (3) applies if a document forwarded to the Minister for the purposes of Part 2 or 3 or section 73 has been directly forwarded to the Minister by any means (including delivery) which has produced a record in writing of the document under conditions allowing the Minister to establish the authenticity of the document. | ||
(3) The record in writing of a document shall be deemed to be the document that was transmitted. | ||
(4) For the purposes of Part 2 or 3 or section 73 , a document shall be deemed to be a true copy of an original document if it has been certified as a true copy of the original document by the competent authority of an issuing state. | ||
(5) A document purporting to be a copy of— | ||
(a) a Framework Decision Certificate, | ||
(b) a judgment to which a certificate referred to in paragraph (a) applies, | ||
(c) a translation of a document referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), or | ||
(d) any other document transmitted in accordance with subsection (1) by the competent authority of an executing state or an issuing state, | ||
shall, unless the contrary is shown, be evidence in any proceedings of the matters specified therein without further proof. |