Evidence Ordinance

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;
8 of 1912 s. 34
;
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
;
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;
(d)
(i)
books printed or published under the authority of the Government of a foreign country, and purporting to contain the statutes, code, or other written law of such country, and also printed and published books of reports of decisions of the courts of such country, and books proved to be commonly admitted in such courts as evidence of the law of such country, shall be admissible as evidence of the law of such foreign country; and
(ii)
maps made under the authority of any Government or of any public municipal body, and not made for the purpose of any litigated question,
shall prima facie be deemed to be correct, and shall be admitted in evidence without further proof.
(Amended
51 of 1911
;
63 of 1911
Schedule)