Form and particulars of minutes of proceedings on trial

(1) It shall not in any case be necessary to draw up a formal record of the proceeding on any trial for a crime, but the Registrar shall cause to be preserved all indictments, pleas and depositions filed with or delivered to him, and he shall keep a book, to be called “the Crown Book”, which shall be the property of the court and be deemed a record thereof. (2) There shall be entered in the Crown Book the name of the judge, and a memorandum of the substance of all proceedings at every trial and of the result of every trial. (3) Any certificate of any indictment, trial, conviction or acquittal, or of the substance thereof, shall be made up from the memorandum in the book, and shall be receivable in evidence for the same purpose and to the same extent as certificates of records, or the substantial parts thereof, are by law receivable, Provided that nothing herein contained shall dispense with the taking of notes by the judge presiding at the trial, or in lieu thereof the taking of notes by an officer of the court appointed by the judge for that purpose. (4) Any erroneous or defective entry in the Crown Book may at any time be amended by a judge in accordance with the fact.