Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

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.

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.

In any criminal or civil proceedings in which an approved image is admitted in evidence—

the image is presumed (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) to be orthorectified, and

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.