MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 695 Sums ordered to be paid leviable by distress on ship.

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 695

Sums ordered to be paid leviable by distress on ship.

695.(1) Where a document is by this Act declared to be admissible in evidence,
such document shall, on its production from the proper custody, be admissible
in evidence in any court or before any person having by law or consent of
parties authority to receive evidence, and, subject to all just exceptions,
shall be evidence ... of the matters stated therein in pursuance of this Act
or by any officer in pursuance of his duties as such officer.

(2) A copy of any such document or extract therefrom shall also be so
admissible in evidence [and be evidence, ..., of those matters] if proved to
be an examined copy or extract, or if it purports to be signed and certified
as a true copy or extract by the officer to whose custody the original
document was entrusted, and that officer shall furnish such certified copy or
extract to any person applying at a reasonable time for the same, upon payment
of a reasonable sum for the same, .... but a person shall be entitled to have

(a)a certified copy of the particulars entered by the registrar in the
register book on the registry of the ship, together with a certified statement
showing the ownership of the ship at the time being; and

(b)a certified copy of any declaration, or document, a copy of which is made
evidence by this Act,

(3) If any such officer wilfully certifies any document as being a true copy
or extract knowing the same not to be a true copy or extract, he shall for
each offence be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable on conviction to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding eighteen months.

(4) If any person forges the seal, stamp, or signature of any document to
which this section applies, or tenders in evidence any such document with a
false or counterfeit seal, stamp, or signature thereto, knowing the same to be
false or counterfeit, he shall for each offence be guilty of felony, and be
liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years, or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, .... and whenever any such
document has been admitted in evidence, the court or the person who admitted
the same may on request direct that the same shall be impounded, and be kept
in the custody of some officer of the court or other proper person, for such
period or subject to such conditions as the court or person thinks fit.

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 695