DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1868 - SECT 2 Mode of proving certain documents.

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DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1868 - SECT 2

Mode of proving certain documents.

2. Prima8 facie evidence of any proclamation, order, or regulation issued
before or after the passing of this Act by Her Majesty, or by the
Privy Council, also of any proclamation, order, or regulation issued before or
after the passing of this Act by or under the authority of any such department
of the Government or officer as is mentioned in the first column of the
schedule hereto, may be given in all courts of justice, and in all legal
proceedings whatsoever, in all or any of the modes herein-after mentioned;
that is to say:

(1)By the production of a copy of the Gazette purporting to contain such
proclamation, order, or regulation.

(2)By the production of a copy of such proclamation, order, or regulation,
purporting to be printed by the Government printer,...

(3)By the production, in the case of any proclamation, order, or regulation
issued by Her Majesty or by the Privy Council, of a copy or extract purporting
to be certified to be true by the clerk of the Privy Council, or by any one of
the lords or others of the Privy Council, and, in the case of any
proclamation, order, or regulation issued by or under the authority of any of
the said departments or officers, by the production of a copy or extract
purporting to be certified to be true by the person or persons specified in
the second column of the said schedule in connection with such department or
officer.

Any copy or extract made in pursuance of this Act may be in print or in
writing, or partly in print and partly in writing.

No proof shall be required of the handwriting or official position of any
person certifying, in pursuance of this Act, to the truth of any copy of or
extract from any proclamation, order, or regulation.

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DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1868 - SECT 2