s 318 Size, durability and legibility of records delivered to Authority
318.—(1) For the purposes of securing that the records provided to or lodged with the Authority under this Act are of a standard size, durable and easily legible, the Authority may prescribe such requirements (whether as to size, weight, quality or colour of paper, size, type or colour of lettering, or otherwise) as it considers appropriate; and different requirements may be so prescribed for different documents or classes of documents. (2) Where the Authority is of the opinion that any record (whether an original or copy thereof) delivered to the Authority does not comply with such requirements prescribed under this section, the Authority may serve on any person by whom under that provision the record was required to be delivered (or if there are 2 or more such persons, may serve on any of them) a notice —(a) stating its opinion to that effect; and (b) indicating the requirements so prescribed with which the record has failed to comply. (3) Where the Authority serves a notice under subsection (2) with respect to a record delivered under this Act, then, for the purposes of any provision of this Act which enables a penalty to be imposed in respect of any omission to deliver to the Authority such record (and, in particular, for the purposes of any such provision whereby a penalty may be imposed by reference to each day during which the omission continues) —(a) any duty imposed by that provision to deliver the record to the Authority is treated as not having been discharged; but (b) no account is to be taken of any days falling within the period referred to in subsection (4). (4) The period referred to in subsection (3)(b) is the period beginning on the day on which the record was delivered to the Authority as mentioned in subsection (2) and ending on the 14th day after the date of service of the notice under subsection (2). (5) For the purposes of this section, any reference to delivering a record includes a reference to sending, forwarding, producing, providing, lodging or (in the case of a notice) giving the record.