Lawgist80Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence
Whenever any document is produced before any Court, purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence, or of any part of the evidence, given by a witness in a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorized by law to take such evidence or to be a statement or confession by any prisoner or accused person, taken in accordance with law, and purporting to be signed by any Judge or Magistrate, or by any such officer as aforesaid, the Court shall presume --
that the document is genuine; that any statements as to the circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true, and that such evidence, statement or confession was duly taken.
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- 79 Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies
- 80 Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence
- 81 Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, private Acts of Parliament and other documents
- 81A Presumption as to Gazettes in electronic forms
- 82 Presumption as to document admissible in England without proof of seal or signature
- 83 Presumption as to maps or plans made by authority of Government
- 84 Presumption as to collections of laws and reports of decisions
- 85 Presumptions as to powers-of-attorney
- 85A Presumption as to electronic agreements
- 85B Presumption as to electronic records and electronic signatures
- 85C Presumption as to Electronic Signature Certificates
- 86 Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial records
- 87 Presumption as to books, maps and charts
- 88 Presumption as to telegraphic messages
- 88A Presumption as to electronic messages
- 89 Presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced
- 90 Presumption as to documents thirty years old
- 90A Presumption as to electronic records five years old
