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Documentary Evidence Act 1882
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Documentary Evidence Act 1882
1882 CHAPTER 9
An Act to amend the Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, and other enactments relating to the evidence of documents by means of copies printed by the Government Printers.
[19th June 1882]
WHEREAS by the [31 & 32 Vict. c. 37.] [33 & 34 Vict. c. 75.] [33 & 34 Vict. c. 79.] [34 & 35 Vict. c. 70.] [40 & 41 Vict. c. 21.] [40 & 41 Vict. c. 53.] Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, and enactments applying that Act, divers proclamations, orders, regulations, rules, and other documents may be proved by the production of copies thereof purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, and the Government Printer is thereby defined to mean and include the Printer to Her Majesty :
And whereas divers other enactments provide that copies of Acts of Parliament, regulations, warrants, circulars, gazettes, and other documents shall be admissible in evidence if purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, or the Queen's Printer, or a printer authorised by Her Majesty, or otherwise under the authority of Her Majesty:
And whereas it is expedient to make further provision respecting the printing of the copies aforesaid :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
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