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signature a statement' in writing on the said copy that the court of justice whereof he is a judge has no seal; but if any of the aforesaid authenticated copies purport to be sealed or signed as herein before respectively directed, the same shall respectively be admitted in evidence in every case in which the original document could have been received in evidence, without any proof of the seal, where a seal is necessary, or of the signature, or of the truth of the statement attached thereto, where such signature and statement are necessary, or of the judicial character of the person appearing to have made such signature and statement.
British
23A.-(1) Copies of Acts, Ordinances and statutes passed Proof of by the legislature of any British possession, and of orders, statutes of regulations, and other instruments issued or made 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 in this Colony without any proof being given that the copies were so printed.
(2) Every person who 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, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.
(3) In this section, "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.
(4) The Governor in Council may by order extend this Cyprus and section to Cyprus and to any British protectorate, and when protectorates. so extended this section 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.
in Supreme
24(1) All answers to interrogatories, disclaimers, Swearing of examinations, affidavits, and attestations of honour, and all answer, etc., the documents required to be sworn in causes or matters Court in
*As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.
† On the outbreak of war with Turkey in 1914, the island of Cyprus was annexed to the British Crown by Order in Council of the 4th November, 1914.