Section 5: Publication of register and lists of corrections

(1) It shall be the duty of the registrar-
(a) to 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) thereafter in each year after that in which the register is first published under paragraph (a) of this subsection, to cause to be printed, published and put on sale as aforesaid, either a corrected edition of the register or list of corrections made to the register since it was last printed; and
(c)
to cause a print of each edition of the register and of each list of corrections to be deposited at the principal office of the Council,
and it shall be the duty of the Council to 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 the list of corrections to that 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 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) of this section, a person is, in any proceedings, 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.