Schedule 2: Minor and Consequential Amendments and Repeals Part 1 – Amendments and Repeals Relating to Part 1 Paragraph 2 – Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.46)
294.This paragraph inserts a new provision in Schedule 9 to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, which lists a number of statutory offences in relation to which certain routine matters may be proved by certificate (rather than by oral evidence at trial). It allows a constable or a person employed by the Scottish Police Authority to certify that an accused individual held, or (as the case may be) did not hold, an air weapon certificate at the time of an alleged offence under Part 1, and for this to be used as sufficient evidence of that fact in criminal proceedings relating to the offence.