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Legal Admissibility of Company Documents Supplied as Electronic Images or on Microfiche Companies House is the registry for all of the original documentation filed by limited companies in accordance with requirements of the Companies Act 2006. Companies House, therefore, is the original source of all electronic images produced by the scanning of these company documents. Electronic document images produced at Companies House are scanned, indexed, stored and made available for electronic access as TIF images. No alteration to the content or appearance of original company documents is made during the scanning process at Companies House. If a document is admissible in evidence, then an electronic image of that document may be treated as secondary evidence in the same manner as a photocopy or a microfiche image. It will be subject to the provisions regarding authentication contained in the Civil Evidence Act 1995 in England and Wales and the Civil Evidence Act (Scotland) 1988 in Scotland. Under the Companies Act 2006 however, Companies House can also provide a certified copy of a document. This copy is then admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document. Companies House January 2000 |
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