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EVIDENCE ACT 1845 - SECT 1

Certain documents purporting to be sealed, signed, &c. to be received in evidence without proof of seal or signature, &c. of person signing the same, where the original record could have been received.

1.] Whenever by any Act now in force or hereafter to be in force any
certificate, official or public document, or document or proceeding of any
corporation or joint stock or other company, or any certified copy of any
document, bye law, entry in any register or other book, or of any other
proceeding, shall be receivable in evidence of any particular in any court of
justice, or before any legal tribunal, or either House of Parliament, or any
committee of either House, or in any judicial proceeding, the same shall
respectively be admitted in evidence, provided they respectively purport to be
sealed or impressed with a stamp, or sealed and signed, or signed alone, as
required, or impressed with a stamp and signed, as directed by the respective
Acts made or to be hereafter made, without any proof of the seal or stamp,
where a seal or stamp is necessary, or of the signature or of the official
character of the person appearing to have signed the same, and without any
further proof thereof, in every case in which the original record could have
been received in evidence.

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