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33. (1) All answers to interrogatories, disclaimers, examinations, affidavits, and attestations of honour, and all other documents required to be sworn in causes or matters depending in the High Court, and also acknowledgements required for the purpose of enrolling any deed in the said court, shall and may be sworn and taken in England, Scotland, or Northern Ireland, or the Channel Islands, or in any other colony or place under the dominion of Her Majesty before any court, judge, notary public or person lawfully authorized to administer oaths in such country, colony, or place respectively, or before any of Her Majesty's consular officers in any place out of Her Majesty's dominions. (Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule and 63 of 1911, Schedule)
(2) The judges and officers of the High Court shall take judicial notice of the seal or signature, as the case may be, of any such court, judge, notary public, person, or consular officer attached, appended, or subscribed to any such document as aforesaid. (Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule and 63 of 1911, Schedule)
any.
34. (1) Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of British ambassador, envoy, minister, chargé d'affaires, secretary of embassy or of legation, or consular officer in testimony of any such oath, affidavit, or act having been administered, sworn, had, or done by or before him under section 6 of the Commissioners for Oaths Acts 1889 and 1891 shall be admitted in evidence without proof of any such seal and signature or of the official character of such person. (Amended, 9 of 1908, s. 2; 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule and 63 of 1911, Schedule)
(2) In this section, "consular officer" includes every consul-general, consul, vice-consul, pro-consul, consular agent, acting consul-general, acting consul, acting vice-consul, and acting consular agent. (Added, 23 of 1915, s. 3)
35. In civil proceedings-
(a) the Gazette and any Government Gazette of any Commonwealth Country may be proved by the production thereof; (Amended, 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule and 8 of 1912, s. 34 and 69 of 1970, s. 4)
(b) all proclamations, acts of state, whether legislative or executive, nominations, appointments, and other official communications of the Government appearing in any such Gazette may be proved by its production; (Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule and 63 of 1911, Schedule)
(c) the court may, on matters of public history, literature, science, or art, refer, for the purposes of evidence, to such published books, maps, or charts as the court may consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate;
Swearing of answer, etc., in England, etc. High Court in
1852 c. 86, s. 22.
Admissibility of document having seal and signature of British
ambassador, etc.
1835 c. 42, s. 3.
1889 c. 10, s. 6(1); 1891 c. 50, s. 3.
Proof of various matters in civil proceedings.