Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

Judicial notice of seals and admissibility of sealed instruments.

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93.—(1) Judicial notice shall be taken of the seal of the Council and the seal of each registration board.

(2) Any record that appears to be an instrument made by the Council and to be sealed with its seal apparently authenticated in accordance with Schedule 1 is admissible in evidence and is deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be such instrument without proof.

(3) Subsection (2) applies also in respect of any record that appears to be an instrument made by a registration board and to be sealed with its seal apparently authenticated in accordance with Schedule 2.