Section 176: Extract of register admissible
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176. Extract of register admissible
(1) An extract from the register or other records kept under this Act
shall, if it purports to be certified to be a true extract by the officer having
custody or control of the register or records or by a police officer having
made the extract from any electronically recorded form of such register or
records kept under this Act, be received in a Court on production by any person and without further proof as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in
it.
(2) The registration book of a motor vehicle or trailer shall be received in
a Court on production by any person and without further proof as prima facie
evidence of the facts stated in the book.
[S. 176 amended by s. 14 of Act 46 of 2002 w.e.f. 15 May 2003.]
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- Can a certified extract from the vehicle register be used as evidence in court?