1. The prescribed qualifications for the purpose of subsection (1) of section forty-one of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948 (which relates to the admissibility of certified plans and drawings in criminal proceedings), shall be-

(a)registration as an architect under the Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938, or

(b)membership of any of the following bodies, that is to say, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Municipal Engineers and the Land Agents Society.

2. A certificate under subsection (1) of section two hundred and forty-two of the Road Traffic Act, 1960, shall be in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto or in a form to the like effect and a notice under paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of that section or under paragraph (b) of subsection (5) of section forty-one of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948, shall be in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto or in a form to the like effect.

3. Any certificate or other document required to be served by subsection (3) of the said section two hundred and forty-two or by subsection (5) of the said section forty-one shall be served in the following manner, that is to say:-

(a)where the person to be served is a corporation, by addressing it to the corporation and leaving it at, or sending it by registered post or by the recorded delivery service to, the registered office of the corporation or, if there be no such office, its principal office or place at which it conducts its business;

(b)in any other case, by delivering it personally to the person to be served or by addressing it to him and leaving it at, or sending it by registered post or by the recorded delivery service to, his last or usual place of abode or place of business.

4. The Evidence by Certificate Rules, 1948(1), are hereby revoked but any document made or other thing done thereunder shall continue to have effect under these Rules.

5. These Rules may be cited as the Evidence by Certificate Rules, 1961, and shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1961.

SCHEDULE

1Form of certificate by constable of statement as to motor vehicle

2Form of notice by defendant requiring attendance of witness

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Rules reproduce the Rules revoked by Rule 4, taking account of the passing of the Road Traffic Act, 1960. They also provide that service may be effected by the new recorded delivery service in the case of certificates and statutory declarations proposed to be used in evidence in criminal proceedings and of notices connected therewith.