Evidence Act 1845
Certain Documents to be received in Evidence without Proof of Seal or Signature, &c. of Person signing the same.
IICourts, &c. to take judicial Notice of Signature of Equity or Common Law Judges, &c.
IIICopies of Private Acts, printed by Queen's Printer, Journals of Parliament, and Proclamations, admissible as Evidence.
IVPersons forging Seal, Stamp, or Signature of certain Documents, or print any Private Act with false Purport, guilty of Felony.
VNot to extend to Scotland.
VIAlteration of Act.
VIICommencement of Act.

Evidence Act 1845

1845 Chapter 113

An Act to facilitate the Admission in Evidence of certain official and other Documents.

WHEREAS it is provided by many Statutes that various Certificates, official and public Documents, Documents and Proceedings of Corporations and of Joint Stock and other Companies, and certified Copies of Documents, Bye Laws, Entries in Registers and other Books, shall be receivable in Evidence of certain Particulars in Courts of Justice, provided they be respectively authenticated in the Manner prescribed by such Statutes : And whereas the beneficial Effect of these Provisions has been found by Experience to be greatly diminished by the Difficulty of proving that the said Documents are genuine ; and it is expedient to facilitate the Admission in Evidence of such and the like Documents :

Be it therefore 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,