(1)  The Recorder shall, on application and payment of the prescribed fee, furnish a person with a certified copy of any public record in the Recorder’s custody.

(2)  A copy for the purposes of this section may, in the Recorder's discretion, be –

(a) in writing;

(b) made by such photocopying, facsimile or electronic transmission process as the Recorder determines; or

(c) made partly in accordance with paragraph (a) and partly in accordance with paragraph (b) .

(3)  In this section –

certified copy in relation to a public record, means a copy of that public record that –

(a) is certified by the Recorder or some officer acting on the Recorder's behalf to be a copy of the public record; or

(b) in the case of a copy created by a facsimile or electronic transmission process – has recorded upon it by that process an indication that the transmission creating the copy was initiated in an office of the Recorder and a record of the time and date of the transmission;

machine copy , in relation to a public record, means a copy of the record made by –

(a) a machine in which, or a process by which, a latent image of the contents of the document is produced from surface contact with the document or by the use of photosensitive material other than transparent photographic film; or

(b) the electrostatic process known as Xerography or any similar process;

photocopying process , in relation to a copy of a public record, means the process of making a photographic copy or machine copy of the public record;

photographic copy , in relation to a public record, means a print made from a transparency of the public record;

transparency , in relation to a public record, means transparency as defined in section 34(3) .

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