The Evidence (United States of America) Order 1969

• Citation: S.I. 1969/146
• Sections: 6

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the Evidence (United States of America) Order 1969.

Section 2

This Order extends to all parts of the United Kingdom.

Section 3

The registers specified in the second column of the Schedule to this Order shall be deemed to be public registers kept under the authority of the law of the respective States and District mentioned in the first column of that Schedule and recognised by the courts of the respective States and District as authentic records and to be documents of such a public nature as to be admissible as evidence of the matters regularly recorded therein.

Section 4

For the purposes of the preceding Article all matters recorded in any such register as aforesaid shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be regularly recorded therein.

Section 5

Subject to any requirements of rules of court, a document which purports to be issued in any of the said States and District as an official copy of an entry in any such register as aforesaid and which purports to be authenticated as such by the signature of any person appearing to be the officer specified in the third column of the Schedule or any other officer who may from time to time be authorised to perform the certifying functions at present performed by the officer so specified shall, without evidence as to the custody of the register or of inability to produce it and without any further or other proof, be received as evidence that the register contains such an entry.

Section 6

Nothing in this Order shall be taken to prohibit or restrict the admission in evidence of any copy, extract, summary, certificate or other document whatsoever which, apart from the provisions of this Order, would be admissible as evidence of any particular matter, or to affect any power which, otherwise than by virtue of this Order, is exercisable by any court with respect to the admission of documents in evidence.