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Page Number: 1179

Date/Time: 11-02-00 08:45:59
Job: 529RUL

Unit: U3EV

Pagination Table: RULES1

RULES OF EVIDENCE

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A party intending to offer a record into evidence under
this paragraph must provide written notice of that in-
tention to all adverse parties, and must make the record
and declaration available for inspection sufﬁciently in
advance of their offer into evidence to provide an ad-
verse party with a fair opportunity to challenge them.
(12) Certiﬁed foreign records of regularly conducted
activity.—In a civil case, the original or a duplicate of
a foreign record of regularly conducted activity that
would be admissible under Rule 803(6) if accompanied
by a written declaration by its custodian or other quali-
ﬁed person certifying that the record—

(A) was made at or near the time of the occur-
rence of the matters set forth by, or from informa-
tion transmitted by, a person with knowledge of
those matters;

(B) was kept in the course of the regularly con-

ducted activity; and

(C) was made by the regularly conducted activity

as a regular practice.

The declaration must be signed in a manner that, if
falsely made, would subject the maker to criminal pen-
alty under the laws of the country where the declaration
is signed. A party intending to offer a record into evi-
dence under this paragraph must provide written notice
of that intention to all adverse parties, and must make
the record and declaration available for inspection sufﬁ-
ciently in advance of their offer into evidence to provide
an adverse party with a fair opportunity to challenge
them.