EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 57
EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 57
57 . United Kingdom proclamations, regulations etc., proof of
(1) Evidence of any
Royal Proclamation, Order of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, order,
regulation, despatch, or any other instrument whatsoever made or issued before
or after the commencement of this Act by Her Majesty, or by Her
Majesty’s Privy Council, or by or under the authority of any of Her
Majesty’s Secretaries of State, or any department of Her Majesty’s
Government in the United Kingdom may be given in any court or before any
person acting judicially —
(a) by
the production of a copy of the London Gazette or by the production of a copy
of the Government Gazette purporting to contain a reprint or copy of such
Proclamation, Order of the Privy Council, order, regulation, despatch, or
other instrument;
(b) by
the production of a copy of such proclamation purporting to be printed or
published by the Government Printer, or under the authority of Parliament;
(c) by
the production in the case of any proclamation, order, or regulation issued by
Her Majesty or by the Privy Council of a copy or extract purporting to be
certified to be true by the Clerk of the Privy Council, or by any one of the
Lords or others of the Privy Council, and, in the case of any proclamation,
order, or regulation issued by or under the authority of any departments of
the Government or officers mentioned in the first column of the Fourth
Schedule, by the production of a copy or extract purporting to be certified to
be true by the person or persons specified in the second column of the said
Schedule in connection with such department or officer.
(2) Any copy or
extract made in pursuance of this section may be in print or in writing, or
partly in print or partly in writing.
(3) No proof shall be
required of the handwriting or official position of any person certifying, in
pursuance of this section, to the truth of any copy of or extract from any
proclamation, order, or regulation.
(4) In this section
the words Privy Council include Her Majesty in Council and the Lords and
others of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, or any of them, and any Committee
of the Privy Council that is not specially named in the Fourth Schedule.
[Section 57 amended: No. 16 of 1956 s. 5; No. 13
of 2021 s. 59.]