EVIDENCE (COLONIAL STATUTES) ACT 1907

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EVIDENCE (COLONIAL STATUTES) ACT 1907 - SECT 1



1.(1) Copies of Acts, ordinances, and statutes passed (whether before or after
the passing of this Act) by the Legislature of any British possession, and of
orders, regulations, and other instruments issued or made, whether before or
after the passing of this Act, under the authority of any such Act, ordinance,
or statute, if purporting to be printed by the Government printer shall be
received in evidence by all courts of justice in the United Kingdom, without
any proof being given that the copies were so printed.

(2) If any person prints any copy or pretended copy of any such Act,
ordinance, statute, order, regulation, or instrument which falsely purports to
have been printed by the Government printer, or tenders in evidence any such
copy or pretended copy which falsely purports to have been so printed, knowing
that it was not so printed, he shall on conviction be liable to be sentenced
to imprisonment ... for a period not exceeding twelve months.

(3) In this Act

The expression "Government printer" means, as respects any British possession,
the printer purporting to be the printer authorised to print the Acts,
ordinances, or statutes of the Legislature of that possession, or otherwise to
be the Government printer of that possession:

The expression "British possession" means any part of His Majesty's dominions
exclusive of the United Kingdom, and, where parts of those dominions are under
both a central and a local Legislature, shall include both all parts under the
central Legislature and each part under a local Legislature.

(5) His Majesty may by Order in Council extend this Act to Cyprus and any
British protectorate, and where so extended this Act shall apply as if Cyprus
or the protectorate were a British possession, and with such other necessary
adaptations as may be made by the Order.

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EVIDENCE (COLONIAL STATUTES) ACT 1907 - SECT 1