Section 82 — Presumption 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 authorised 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 authorised officer, the court is to presume —

(a)that the document is genuine;

(b)that any statements as to the circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true; and

(c)that such evidence, statement or confession was duly taken.