Section 8: Publication of register and list of corrections

(1) The Registrar shall –
(a) cause the register to be printed, published and put on sale to members of the public not later than two years from the appointed day; and
(b) every two years after that in which the register is first published under paragraph (a), cause to be printed, published and put on sale as either a corrected edition of the register or a list of 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 to be deposited at the principal office of the institute and the Council shall keep the register and lists so deposited 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 documents purporting to be prints of an edition of the register so published and of a list of corrections to that edition published, shall, without prejudice to any other mode of proof, be admissible in any proceeding as evidence that any person specified in the document, or the document read together, as being registered was so registered at the date of the edition or of the list of corrections, 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 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 continued to be, or not to be, so registered.