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Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 37 Cited in Amendments 154 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1968 c. 70
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    • (a) apply to the tenancy of any croft within the meaning of section 3(1) of the (b) have effect in relation to the succession to, and devolution of, any such tenancy,(1) If any civil proceedings the fact that a person has been convicted of an offence by or before any court in the United Kingdom or F3of a service offence (anywhere) shall (subject to subsection (3) of this section) be admissable in evidence for the purpose of proving, where to do so is relevant to any issue in those proceedings, that he committed that offence, whether he was so convicted upon a plea of guilty or otherwise and whether or not he is a party to the civil proceedings ; but no conviction other than a subsisting one shall be admissable in evidence by virtue of this section.he shall be taken to have committed that offence unless the contrary is proved, andwithout prejudice to the reception of any other admissable evidence for the purposes of identifying the facts which constituted that offence, the contents of any document which is admissable as evidence of the conviction, and the contents of the complaint, information, indictment or charge-sheet on which the person in question was convicted, shall be admissable in evidence for that purpose.(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the operation of section 12 of this Act or any other enactment whereby a conviction or a finding of fact in any criminal proceedings is for the purposes of any other proceedings made conclusive evidence of any fact.(4) Where in any civil proceedings the contents of any document are admissable in evidence by virtue of subsection (2) of this section, a copy of that document, or of the material part thereof, purporting to be certified or otherwise authenticated by or on behalf of the court or authority having custody of that document, shall be admissable in evidence and shall be taken to be a true copy of that document or part unless the contrary is shown.F20section 82 of the Sentencing Code (under which a conviction leading to probation or discharge is to be disregarded except as therein mentioned) ;section 187 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (which makes similar provision in respect of service convictions) ;F6section 191 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (which makes similar provision in respect of convictions on indictment in Scotland) ;section 8 of the (6) In this section—
    • “service offence” has the same meaning as in the Armed Forces Act 2006;
    • “conviction” includes anything that under section 376(1) and (2) of that Act is to be treated as a conviction, and “convicted” is to be read accordingly.
    the fact that a person has been found guilty of adultery in any matrimonial proceedings, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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