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EVIDENCE ACT - SECT 30

Non-Territory documents

    (1)     Where any document in any place outside the Territory is provable under the law of that place by means of a copy, then a copy of or extract from that document is admissible in evidence in the Territory:

        (a)     if it is an examined copy or an examined extract; or

        (b)     if it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy or extract by a person who certifies that he is the officer having the custody of the original.

    (2)     A document which is admissible in evidence for any purpose in any place outside the Territory without proof of the seal, stamp or signature authenticating it, or of the judicial or official character of the person appearing to have signed it, is similarly admissible in evidence in the Territory for the like purpose.



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