BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 2016 - SECT 13.32
Evidence from photographs and other images of land
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 2016 - SECT 13.32
Evidence from photographs and other images of land
13.32 Evidence from photographs and other images of land
(1) This section
applies to a photographic or other image of an area of land formed from data
captured by a device carried by an aircraft, satellite or other craft (and
information recorded on the image) that the Environment Agency Head, or an
officer prescribed by the regulations, certifies as an approved image.
(2) An
approved image is admissible in criminal or civil proceedings under this Act
and (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) is evidence of the matter
depicted on the image and of the information recorded on the image relating to
the location or boundaries of the land, the time when or period during which
the image was taken or other matter prescribed by the regulations.
(3) In any
criminal or civil proceedings in which an approved image is admitted in
evidence--
(a) the image is presumed (in the absence of evidence to the
contrary) to be orthorectified, and
(b) evidence is not required (in the
absence of evidence to the contrary) of the accuracy of any process used to
orthorectify the image or of the accuracy of any process used to determine the
boundaries of the land recorded on the image.
