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DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1868 - SECT 5

5.(1) The following words shall in this Act have the meaning hereinafter
assigned to them, unless there is something in the context repugnant to such
construction; (that is to say,)

"British colony and possession" shall for the purposes of this Act include the
Channel Islands, the Isle of Man,... and all other Her Majesty's dominions.

"Legislature" shall signify any authority, other than the Imperial Parliament
or Her Majesty in Council, competent to make laws for any colony or
possession.

"Privy Council" shall include Her Majesty in Council and the lords and others
of Her Majesty's Privy Council, or any of them, and any committee of the
Privy Council that is not specially named in the schedule hereto.

"Government printer" shall mean and include the printer to Her Majesty, and
any printer purporting to be the printer authorized to print the statutes,
ordinances, acts of state, or other public acts of the legislature of any
British colony or possession, or otherwise to be the Government printer of
such colony or possession.

"Gazette" shall include the London Gazette, the Edinburgh Gazette, and the
[Belfast Gazette] or any of such Gazettes.

Subs.(2) inserted by SRO 1937/230 (Rev. vol. X p.545), rep. by SL(R) 1976

© 1868 Crown Copyright

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