EVIDENCE.
No. 2 of 1889.
447
the proper custody, and no enactment exists which renders its contents provable by means of a copy, any copy thereof or extract therefrom shall be admissible in evidence in the Court, provided it is proved to be an examined copy or extract or provided it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy or extract by the officer to whose custody the original is entrusted, and which officer is hereby required to furnish such certified copy or extract to any person applying at a reasonable time for the same, on payment of a reasonable sum for the same, not exceeding 25 cents for every folio of 90 words.
nature.
[14 & 15 Vict. c.99 s.14.]
*
*
18. Whenever, by any enactment, any certificate, official or Official docu- public document, or proceeding of any corporation or joint stock [8 & 9 Vict. c.113 s.1.] or other company, or any certified copy of any document, by-law, entry in any register or other book, or of any other proceeding is receivable in evidence of any particular in the Court or before the Legislative Council or any Committee thereof, the same shall respectively be admitted in evidence, provided they respectively purport to be sealed or impressed with a stamp, or sealed and signed, or signed alone, as required, or impressed with a stamp and signed, as directed by the enactment, without any proof of the seal or stamp where a seal or stamp is necessary, or of the signature or of the official character of the person appearing to have signed the same, and without any further proof thereof, in every case in which the original record could have been received in evidence.
19. All affidavits and notarial acts taken and made under the Act 6 George IV, chapter 87, or under the Act 18 and 19 Victoria, chapter 42, shall and may be received, read, and made use of in and before the Court in or in relation to any action, cause, matter, or proceeding in or before the Court in like manner, and shall be of the same force and effect, as affidavits taken in or before the Supreme Court or by any person duly commissioned or authorised by the Court to take such affidavits and shall be filed and dealt with accordingly.
20. Subject to the provisions of this section, a copy of an entry in a banker's book shall in all proceedings be received as primâ facie evidence of such entry and of the matters, transactions, and accounts therein recorded,
* As amended by No. 63 of 1911.
As amended by No. 51 of 1911 and No. 62 of 1911.
Use of affidavit, etc., taken before ambassador,
[18 & 19 Vict. c.42 s.2.]
etc.
+
Copy of entry book.
in banker's
[42 & 43 Vict. c.11 ss.3-6.]
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EVIDENCE.
No. 2 of 1889.
447
the proper custody, and no enactment exists which renders its contents provable by means of a copy, any copy thereof or extract therefrom shall be admissible in evidence in the Court, provided it is proved to be an examined copy or extract or provided it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy or extract by the officer to whose custody the original is entrusted, and which officer is hereby required to furnish such certified copy or extract to any person applying at a reasonable time for the same, on payment of a reasonable sum for the same, not exceeding 25 cents for every folio of 90 words.
nature.
[14 & 15 Vict. .99 s. 14.1
ments.
*
*
18. Whenever, by any enactment, any certificate, official or Official docu- public document, or proceeding of any corporation or joint stock [8 & 9 Vict. or other company, or any certified copy of any document, by-law, c. 113 s. 1.] entry in any register or other book, or of any other proceeding is receivable in evidence of any particular in the Court or before the Legislative Council or any Committee thereof, the same shall res- pectively be admitted in evidence, provided they respectively purport to be sealed or impressed with a stamp, or sealed and signed, or signed alone, as required, or impressed with a stamp and signed, as directed by the enactment, without any proof of the seal or stamp where a seal or stamp is necessary, or of the signature or of the official character of the person appearing to have signed the same, and without any further proof thereof, in every case in which the original record could have been received in evidence.
.
19. All affidavits and notorial acts taken and made under the Act 6 George IV, chapter 87, or under the Act 18 and 19 Victoria, chapter 42, shall and may be received, read, and made use of in and before the Court in or in relation to any action, cause, matter, or proceeding in or before the Court in like manner, and shall be of the same force and effect, as affidavits taken in or before the Supreme Court or by any person duly commissioned or authorised by the Court to take such affidavits and shall be filed and dealt with accordingly.
20. Subject to the provisions of this section, a copy of an entry in a banker's book shall in all proceedings be received as primâ facie evidence of such entry and of the matters, transactions, and accounts therein recorded,-
* As amended by No. 63 of 1911.
As amended by No. 51 of 1911 and No. 62 of 1911.
Use of affidavit, etc., taken before ambassador,
[18 & 19 Vict. c. 42 s. 2.]
etc.
+
Copy of entry book.
in banker's
[42 & 43 Vict. c. 11 ss. 3-6.1
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