The Evidence (Grenada) Order 1966

Statutory Instruments

1966 No. 82

EVIDENCE

The Evidence (Grenada) Order 1966

Made

31st January 1966

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st day of January 1966

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas Her Majesty in Council is satisfied that there exist in Grenada public registers kept under the law of that Colony and recognised by the courts thereof as authentic records, and that those registers are regularly and properly kept:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in the exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 5(1) of the Oaths and Evidence (Overseas Authorities and Countries) Act 1963 and all other powers in that behalf in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1.  The registers of Grenada specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order shall be deemed to be public registers kept under the authority of the law of that Colony and recognised by the courts thereof as authentic records, and to be documents of such a public nature as to be admissible as evidence of the matters regularly recorded therein.

2.  For the purposes of the preceding article all matters recorded in the register shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be regularly recorded.

3.  Subject to any requirements of rules of court, a document which purports to be issued in Grenada as an official copy of an entry in a register specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order and which purports to be authenticated by an officer of the said Colony in the manner specified in that Schedule, 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.

4.  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.

5.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Evidence (Grenada) Order 1966.

(2) This Order extends to all parts of the United Kingdom.

W. G. Agnew

Article 1 & 3

SCHEDULE

Register	Certifying Officers	Mode of Authentication
Register of Births	The Registrar General or the Deputy Registrar General	the signature of the certifying officer and the seal or stamp of the General Register Office.
General Marriage Register Book	The Registrar General or the Deputy Registrar General	the signature of the certifying officer and the seal or stamp of the General Register Office.
Marriage Register Books	A Registrar of Marriages, a Deputy Registrar of Marriages or a Marriage Officer	the signature of the certifying officer.
Register of Deaths	The Registrar General or the Deputy Registrar General	the signature of the certifying officer and the seal or stamp of the General Register Office.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order makes entries contained in specified public registers of Grenada admissible in evidence in the United Kingdom and provides for their proof by official certificates.