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11 Evidence by certificate as to driver, user or owner.
(1) In any proceedings in England and Wales for an offence to which this section applies, a certificate in the prescribed form, purporting to be signed by a constable and certifying that a person specified in the certificate stated to the constable—
(a) that a particular mechanically propelled vehicle was being driven or used by, or belonged to, that person on a particular occasion, or
(b) that a particular mechanically propelled vehicle on a particular occasion was used by, or belonged to, a firm and that he was, at the time of the statement, a partner in that firm, or
(c) that a particular mechanically propelled vehicle on a particular occasion was used by, or belonged to, a corporation and that he was, at the time of the statement, a director, officer or employee of that corporation,
shall be admissible as evidence for the purpose of determining by whom the vehicle was being driven or used, or to whom it belonged, as the case may be, on that occasion.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) above makes a certificate admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence except in a case where and to the like extent to which oral evidence to the like effect would have been admissible in those proceedings.
(3) Nothing in subsection (1) above makes a certificate admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence—
(a) unless a copy of it has, not less than seven days before the hearing or trial, been served in the prescribed manner on the person charged with the offence, or
(b) if that person, not later than three days before the hearing or trial or within such further time as the court may in special circumstances allow, serves a notice in the prescribed form and manner on the prosecutor requiring attendance at the trial of the person who signed the certificate.
(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) In this section “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument.
(5) Schedule 1 to this Act shows the offences to which this section applies.
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11 Evidence by certificate as to driver, user or owner.
(1) In any proceedings in England and Wales for an offence to which this section applies, a certificate in the prescribed form, purporting to be signed by a constable and certifying that a person specified in the certificate stated to the constable—
(a) that a particular mechanically propelled vehicle was being driven or used by, or belonged to, that person on a particular occasion, or
(b) that a particular mechanically propelled vehicle on a particular occasion was used by, or belonged to, a firm and that he was, at the time of the statement, a partner in that firm, or
(c) that a particular mechanically propelled vehicle on a particular occasion was used by, or belonged to, a corporation and that he was, at the time of the statement, a director, officer or employee of that corporation,
shall be admissible as evidence for the purpose of determining by whom the vehicle was being driven or used, or to whom it belonged, as the case may be, on that occasion.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) above makes a certificate admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence except in a case where and to the like extent to which oral evidence to the like effect would have been admissible in those proceedings.
(3) Nothing in subsection (1) above makes a certificate admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence—
(a) unless a copy of it has, not less than seven days before the hearing or trial, been served in the prescribed manner on the person charged with the offence, or
(b) if that person, not later than three days before the hearing or trial or within such further time as the court may in special circumstances allow, serves a notice in the prescribed form and manner on the prosecutor requiring attendance at the trial of the person who signed the certificate.
(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) In this section “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument.
(5) Schedule 1 to this Act shows the offences to which this section applies.
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