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CROWN OFFICE ACT 1877 - SECT 5

Rules by Committee of Council as to preparation and authentication of documents to which Act applies.

5. The Committee of Council aforesaid, acting in case of difference according
to the opinion of any two of them, may by order make, and when made from time
to time revoke, add to, or alter rules

(1) Providing for a record to be kept at the Crown Office of all justices of
the peace appointed in pursuance of any commission of the peace issued by Her
Majesty, and for the rectification of such record from time to time; and

(2)Prescribing the documents to which the Wafer Great Seal and the Wafer Privy
Seal respectively are to be attached; and

(3)Prescribing the mode in which documents to which this Act applies are to be
prepared, whether to be printed or written, or partly printed and partly
written, and whether to be printed or written on paper, parchment, or any
other fitting material: Provided that

(a)It shall not be necessary to the validity of any document to or on which a
Wafer Great Seal or Wafer Privy Seal is attached or embossed to prove that the
attachment or embossing of such wafer seals respectively was authorised, and
no evidence to the contrary shall be received; and

(b)Engrossing may in all cases be dispensed with, and, so far as seems to the
Committee of Council convenient, printing shall be adopted in place of
writing.

Any rule purporting to be made in pursuance of this section shall be laid
before both Houses of Parliament within one month after it is made, if
Parliament be then sitting, or if not then sitting, within one month after the
commencement of the then next session of Parliament, and shall be judicially
noticed, and shall be of the same validity as if it had been enacted by
Parliament.


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