s 88 Evidence of Patent Co-operation Treaty and its instruments
88.—(1) Judicial notice is to be taken of the Patent Co‑operation Treaty and any Gazette, bulletin or journal published under the Treaty. (2) Any such document mentioned in subsection (1) is admissible as evidence of any instrument or other act thereby communicated of any institution having functions under the Treaty. (3) Evidence of any instrument issued under the Patent Co‑operation Treaty by any institution or of any document in the custody of any institution or reproducing in legible form any information in such custody otherwise than in legible form, or any entry or extract from such a document, may be given in any legal proceedings by production of a copy certified as a true copy by an official of that institution. (4) Any document purporting to be such a copy as is specified by subsection (3) shall be received in evidence without proof of the official position or handwriting of the person signing the certificate. (5) Evidence of any instrument mentioned in subsection (3) may also be given in any legal proceedings —(a) by production of a copy purporting to be printed or published by the Government Printer; or[Act 5 of 2025 wef 09/03/2025] (b) where the instrument is in the custody of a Government department, by production of a copy certified on behalf of the department to be a true copy by an officer of the department generally or specially authorised to do so. (6) Any document purporting to be such a copy as is mentioned in subsection (5)(b) of an instrument in the custody of a Government department shall be received in evidence without proof of the official position or handwriting of the person signing the certificate, or of the person’s authority to do so, or of the document being in the custody of the department. (7) In this section, “legal proceedings” includes proceedings before the Registrar.