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Evidence Act 1950 s 22

Evidence Act 1950 s 22

s 22 When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant

Oral admissions as to the contents of a document are not relevant unless and until the party proposing to prove them shows that he is entitled to give secondary evidence of the contents of the document under the rules hereinafter contained, or unless the genuineness of a document produced is in question.

Malay text (authoritative)

Bila pengakuan lisan tentang kandungan dokumen menjadi berkaitan

Pengakuan lisan tentang kandungan sesuatu dokumen tidaklah berkaitan melainkan jika dan sehingga pihak yang bercadang hendak membuktikannya menunjukkan yang dia berhak memberi keterangan sekunder mengenai kandungan dokumen itu di bawah kaedah-kaedah yang terkandung kemudian daripada ini, atau melainkan jika ketulenan dokumen yang dikemukakan itu dipersoalkan.

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Find Act 56 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 May 2017 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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