Application of Documentary Evidence Acts to rule-making authoritiesN.I.
9. Without prejudice to any other statutory provision, the Documentary Evidence Act 1868 [1868 c.37] , as amended by the Documentary Evidence Act 1882 [1882 c.9] shall apply to every rule-making authority as if—
(a)the rule-making authority were included in the first column of the Schedule to the first-mentioned Act;
(b)the rule-making authority or a principal officer of that authority were named in the second column of that Schedule as a certifying officer;
(c)the regulations referred to in those Acts included statutory rules within the meaning of this Order;
(d)the expression “Gazette” included the Belfast Gazette; and the expression “Government printer” included the officer appointed to print Measures of the Assembly; and
(e)photographic copies for the supply and sale of which arrangements have been made under Article 7(3) were copies purporting to be printed by the Government printer.