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EVIDENCE ACT 1845 - SECT 4

Persons printing any private Act, &c. with false purport, guilty of felony.

4. Provided always, that... if any person shall print any copy of any private
Act or of the journals of either House of Parliament, which copy shall falsely
purport to have been printed by the printers to the crown, or by the printers
to either House of Parliament, or by any or either of them, of if any person
shall tender in evidence any such copy, knowing that the same was not printed
by the person or persons by whom it so purports to have been printed, every
such person shall be guilty of [an offence and shall, on conviction on
indictment, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding] seven
years.... Provided also, that whenever any such document as before mentioned
shall have been received in evidence by virtue of this Act, the court, judge,
commissioner, or other person officiating judicially who shall have admitted
the same shall, on the request of any party against whom the same is so
received, be authorized, at its or at his own discretion, to direct that the
same shall be impounded, and be kept in the custody of some officer of the
court or other proper person, until further order touching the same shall be
given, either by such court, or the court to which such master or other
officer belonged, or by the persons or person who constituted such court, or
by some one of the equity or common law judges of the superior courts at
Westminster, on application being made for that purpose.

Ss.6, 7 rep. by SLR 1875



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