Evidence Ordinance

(1)
Copies of Acts, Ordinances and statutes passed by the legislature of any Commonwealth Country, and of orders, 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 admitted in evidence in any criminal or civil proceedings on their production without any proof being given that the copies were so printed.
(Amended
50 of 1911
;
62 of 1911
Schedule;
8 of 1912 s. 34
;
69 of 1970 s. 3
)
(2)
A certificate purporting to be signed by the Chief Secretary for Administration and stating that the provisions of any such Act, Ordinance or statute, or of an order, regulation or other instrument issued or made under the authority of any such Act, Ordinance or statute set out therein were in force at the date specified in the certificate shall be admitted in evidence in any criminal or civil proceedings on its production without further proof,
and—
(Amended
L.N. 362 of 1997
)
(a)
until the contrary is proved, the court in which such certificate is produced shall presume that it is so signed; and
(b)
such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all matters contained therein.
(Added
69 of 1970 s. 3
)
(3)
Any 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 12 months.
(Amended
30 of 1911 s. 4
;
51 of 1911
;
63 of 1911
Schedule
;
5 of 1924
Schedule
)
(4)
In this section,
Government printer
(
政府印務局
) means, as respects any Commonwealth Country,
                the printer purporting to be the printer authorized to print the Acts, Ordinances,
                or statutes of the legislature thereof, or otherwise to be the Government printer of
                that country.
(Amended
50 of 1911
;
62 of 1911
Schedule;
8 of 1912 s. 34
;
69 of 1970 s. 3
)
(
2 of 1908 ss. 2
, 3 & 4 incorporated)
[cf. 1907 c. 16 s. 1 U.K.]