SCHEDULE 3PART 1 OF THE ACT AS MODIFIED BY SCHEDULE 2

Evidence

Order etc. made in specified State need not be proved.15

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

a

any order made by a court in a specified State purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court, shall be deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or, as the case may be, to have been signed by that person;

b

the person by whom the order was signed shall be deemed without further proof to have been a judge, magistrate or officer, as the case may be, of that court when he 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 specified State shall be deemed without further proof to be such a copy.