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Part 4 · Miscellaneous Provisions

15. Order, etc., made abroad need not be proved

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For the purposes of this Act, unless the contrary is shown —

(a)

any order made by a court in a reciprocating country purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any person in the person’s capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court, is deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or signed by that person, as the case may be;

(b)

the person by whom the order was signed is deemed without further proof to have been a judge, magistrate or officer (as the case may be) of that court when the person signed it and, in the case of an officer, to have been authorised to sign it; and

(c)

a document purporting to be a certified copy of an order made by a court in a reciprocating country is deemed without further proof to be such a copy.

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