(1) A party may adduce evidence of the contents of a document in question—
(a) by tendering the document in question;
(b) by adducing evidence of an admission made by some other party to the proceedings as to the contents of the document in question;
(c) by tendering a document that—
(i) is or purports to be a copy of the document in question, and
(ii) has been produced, or purports to have been produced, by a device that reproduces the contents of documents;
(d) if the document in question is an article or thing by which words are recorded in such a way as to be capable of being reproduced as sound, or in which words are recorded in a code, including shorthand writing, by tendering a document that is, or purports to be, a transcript of the words;
(e) if the document in question is an article or thing on or in which information is stored in such a manner that it cannot be used by the court unless a device is used to retrieve, produce or collate it, by tendering a document that was or purports to have been produced by use of the device;
(f) by tendering a document that—
(i) forms part of the records of or kept by a business, whether or not the business is still in existence, and
(ii) purports to be a copy of, or an extract from or a summary of, the document in question, or is or purports to be a copy of such a document; or
(g) if the document in question is a public document, by tendering a document, that was or purports to have been printed—
(i) by the Government Printery, or
(ii) by the authority of the government of a foreign country,
and is or purports to be a copy of the document in question.
(2) Subsection (1) applies in relation to a document in question, whether the document in question is available to the party or not.
(3) A party may adduce evidence of the contents of a document in question that is unavailable—
(a) by tendering a document that is a copy of, or a faithful extract from or summary of, the document in question; or
(b) by adducing oral evidence of the contents of the document in question.