(a)any map, plan, graph or drawing;
Section history
Section 269 — Definitions, etc., for sections 270 to 277
As in force on 20 December 2011.
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- 2 January 2011 Enacted
- 20 December 2011 You are here
- 1 August 2012 Act 4 of 2012
- 31 December 2025 Act 19 of 2018, Act 40 of 2019, Act 5 of 2024
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(1)In this section and in sections 270 to 277 —
“document” includes, in addition to a document in writing —
(b)any photograph;
(c)any disc, tape, sound-track, or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced from it; and
(d)any film, negative, tape or other device in which one or more visual images are embodied so that they can be likewise reproduced from it;
“film” includes a microfilm.
(2)In this section and in sections 270 to 277, a reference to a copy of a document includes —
(a)in the case of a document falling within paragraph (c) but not paragraph (d) of the definition of “document”, a transcript of the sounds or other data embodied in it;
(b)in the case of a document falling within paragraph (d) but not paragraph (c) of that definition, a reproduction or still reproduction of the image or images embodied in it, whether enlarged or not;
(c)in the case of a document falling within paragraphs (c) and (d) of that definition, such a transcript together with such a still reproduction; and
(d)in the case of a document not falling within paragraph (d) of that definition of which a visual image is embodied in a document falling within that paragraph, a reproduction of that image, whether enlarged or not,
and any reference to a copy of the material part of a document must be construed accordingly.
(3)For the purposes of this section and of sections 270 to 277, a protest, greeting or other verbal utterance may be treated as stating any fact that the utterance implies.