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3.—(1) Any appointment, direction or permission purporting to be signed by or on behalf of a chief officer of police and to have been made or given for the purposes of this Schedule shall, in proceedings under the last preceding paragraph of this Schedule, be evidence that the appointment, direction or permission thereby made or given was duly made or given by or on behalf of the chief officer of police.

(2) A certificate purporting to be signed by an officer in charge of a police station and certifying that it appears from the records kept at that police station that a person has failed to register an address or make a report or has registered a particular address at that police station shall, in any such proceedings as aforesaid, be evidence of the facts so certified.

(3) A certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and certifying that he has received a notice given pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section twenty-nine of this Act to the effect that a person has failed to comply with any requirement under that subsection shall, in any such proceedings as aforesaid, be evidence of the notice having been duly given and of the contents of the notice.

4.—(1) For the purposes of this Schedule, a person shall be deemed to reside at any house or other place of whatever description at which he spends a night.

(2) In this Schedule the following expressions have the following meanings:—
 * “Appointed police station” means a police station appointed for the purposes of this Schedule by the chief officer of police of the police area in which the police station is situated;
 * “Chief officer of police” and “police area” have the same meaning respectively as in section thirty of the Police Pensions Act, 1921;
 * “Registered address”, in relation to any person, means the address which is for the time being the address last registered by him in accordance with this Schedule.

5. It shall be the duty of a chief officer of police to appoint a sufficient number of police stations in his area for the purposes of this Schedule. SECOND SCHEDULE 1. Where any person serving a term of imprisonment for life has been released on licence under subsection (1) of section twenty-seven of this Act, he may be recalled under subsection (2) of that section notwithstanding that he is for the time being in Scotland; and in relation to any such person, while in Scotland, the said subsection (2) shall extend to Scotland accordingly.

2. Where any person sentenced to Borstal training by a court in England, or who is required by virtue of any enactment to be treated as if he had been so sentenced, is released from a Borstal institution, 27