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As published
59 Authentication of documents.
(1) Any notice, order or other document which a relevant health protection authority are authorised or required by or under this Act to give, make or issue may be signed on behalf of the authority—
(a) by the proper officer of the authority as respects documents relating to matters within his province, or
(b) by any officer of the authority authorised by them in writing to sign documents of the particular or, as the case may be, the particular document.
(2) Any document purporting to bear the signature of an officer—
(a) expressed to hold an office by virtue of which he is under this section empowered to sign such a document, or
(b) expressed to be duly authorised by the relevant health protection authority to sign such a document or the particular document,
shall, for the purposes of this Act, and of any regulations and orders made under it, be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have been duly given, made or issued by authority of the relevant health protection authority.
(3) In subsection (2) above “ signature” includes a facsimilie of a signature by whatever process reproduced.
Your change, as a redline
59 Authentication of documents.
(1) Any notice, order or other document which a relevant health protection authority are authorised or required by or under this Act to give, make or issue may be signed on behalf of the authority—
(a) by the proper officer of the authority as respects documents relating to matters within his province, or
(b) by any officer of the authority authorised by them in writing to sign documents of the particular or, as the case may be, the particular document.
(2) Any document purporting to bear the signature of an officer—
(a) expressed to hold an office by virtue of which he is under this section empowered to sign such a document, or
(b) expressed to be duly authorised by the relevant health protection authority to sign such a document or the particular document,
shall, for the purposes of this Act, and of any regulations and orders made under it, be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have been duly given, made or issued by authority of the relevant health protection authority.
(3) In subsection (2) above “ signature” includes a facsimilie of a signature by whatever process reproduced.
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