Section 7: Publication of the register and list of evidential value

(1) The Registrar shall —
(a) cause the register to be printed, published, and put on sale to members of the public not later than 12 months from the commencement of this Act;
(b) in each year after that in which the register is first published under paragraph (a), cause to be printed, published and put on sale a corrected edition of the register or list of corrections or alterations made to the register since it was last printed; and
(c) cause a print of each edition of the register and of each list of corrections or alterations to be deposited at the principal office of the Institute, and the Registrar shall keep the register and lists so deposited and make them available at all reasonable times for inspection by members of the public.
(2) A document purporting to be a print of an edition of the Register published under this section by authority of the Registrar or document purporting to be a print of an edition of the Register so published and of a list of corrections or alterations to the last edition so published, shall, without prejudice to any other mode of proof, be admissible in any proceedings as evidence that any person specified in the document, or the documents read together, as being registered, was so registered at the date of the edition or the list of corrections or alterations, as the case may be, and that any person not so specified was not so registered.
(3) Where in accordance with subsection (2) a person is, in any proceeding, shown to have been, or not to have been registered at a particular date, he shall, unless the contrary is proved, be taken for the purposes of those proceedings as having at all material times thereafter continued to be, or not to be so registered.