Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 section 52

Records

Section 52 establishes that official records maintained by the Secretary of State in connection with vehicle excise and registration can be used as evidence in legal proceedings.

• Statements from the Secretary of State's vehicle registration and excise records are admissible as evidence in any legal proceedings, covering facts on matters specified by regulations.
• The records must be authenticated by a person authorised by the Secretary of State, and may take the form of original records, copies, or notes of information from those records.
• The definitions of "document", "copy", and "statement" are broad — a document is anything in which information is recorded, a copy is anything onto which that information has been reproduced by any means, and a statement is any representation of fact however made.
• The evidential provisions apply to both civil and criminal proceedings across England, Wales, and Scotland.