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CHAPTER 9.
A.D. 1882. 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, s. 83.
33 & 34 Vict. c. 79, s. 21.
34 & 35 Vict. c. 70, s. 5.
40 & 41 Vict. c. 21, s. 91.
40 & 41 Vict. c. 53, s. 58.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 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:
Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Documentary Evidence Act, 1882.
Documents printed under superintendence of Stationery Office receivable in evidence.
2. Where any enactment, whether passed before or after the passing of this Act, provides that a copy of any Act of Parliament, proclamation, order, regulation, rule, warrant, circular, list, gazette, or document shall be conclusive evidence, or be evidence, or have any other effect, when purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, or the Queen’s Printer, or a printer authorised by Her Majesty, or otherwise under Her Majesty’s