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SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1895 - SECT 5

Evidence.

5.(1) A statement in writing, purporting to be signed by an officer having
power in pursuance of this Act to stop and examine a ship as to the
circumstances under which or grounds on which he stopped and examined the
ship, shall be admissible in any proceedings, civil or criminal, as evidence
of the facts or matters therein stated.

(2) If evidence contained in any such statement was taken on oath in the
presence of the person charged in the evidence, and that person had an
opportunity of cross-examining the person giving the evidence and of making
his reply to the evidence, the officer making the statement may certify that
the evidence was so taken, and that there was such opportunity as aforesaid.

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