SEA FISHERIES ACT 1883 - SECT 17 Evidence.

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SEA FISHERIES ACT 1883 - SECT 17

Evidence.

17.(1) Any document drawn up in pursuance of the first schedule to this Act
shall be admissible in any proceeding, civil or criminal, as evidence of the
facts or matters therein stated.

(2) If evidence contained in any such document was taken on oath in the
presence of the person charged in such evidence, and such person had an
opportunity of cross-examining the person giving such evidence and of making
his reply to such evidence, the sea-fishery officer drawing up such document
may certify the said facts, or any of them.

(3) Any document or certificate in this section mentioned purporting to be
signed by a sea-fishery officer shall be admissible in evidence without proof
of such signature, and, if purporting to be signed by any other person, shall,
if certified by a sea-fishery officer to have been so signed, be deemed until
the contrary is proved to have been signed by such other person.

(4) If any person forges the signature of a sea-fishery officer to any such
document as above mentioned, or makes use of any such document knowing the
signature thereto to be forged, such person shall be liable on summary
conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months ....

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SEA FISHERIES ACT 1883 - SECT 17