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EVIDENCE (COLONIAL STATUTES) ACT 1907

EVIDENCE (COLONIAL STATUTES) ACT 1907 - LONG TITLE

An Act to facilitate the admission in evidence of statutes passed
by the Legislatures of British possessions and protectorates,
including Cyprus{1}.
[21st August 1907]
Proof of statutes of British possessions.

EVIDENCE (COLONIAL STATUTES) ACT 1907 - SECT 1

1.(1) Copies of Acts, ordinances, and statutes passed (whether before
or after the passing of this Act) by the Legislature of any
British possession, and of orders, regulations, and other instruments
issued or made, whether before or after the passing of this Act,
under the authority of any such Act, ordinance, or statute, if
purporting to be printed by the Government printer shall be received
in evidence by all courts of justice in the United Kingdom, without
any proof being given that the copies were so printed.

(2) If any person prints any copy or pretended copy of any such
Act, ordinance, statute, order, regulation, or instrument which
falsely purports to have been printed by the Government printer, or
tenders in evidence any such copy or pretended copy which falsely
purports to have been so printed, knowing that it was not so
printed, he shall on conviction be liable to be sentenced to
imprisonment ... for a period not exceeding twelve months.

(3) In this Act

The expression "Government printer" means, as respects any British
possession, the printer purporting to be the printer authorised to
print the Acts, ordinances, or statutes of the Legislature of that
possession, or otherwise to be the Government printer of that
possession:

The expression "British possession" means any part of His Majesty's
dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom, and, where parts of those
dominions are under both a central and a local Legislature, shall
include both all parts under the central Legislature and each part
under a local Legislature.

(5) His Majesty may by Order in Council extend this Act to Cyprus
and any British protectorate, and where so extended this Act shall
apply as if Cyprus or the protectorate were a British possession,
and with such other necessary adaptations as may be made by the
Order.

EVIDENCE (COLONIAL STATUTES) ACT 1907 - SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Evidence (Colonial Statutes) Act,
1907.