IEA Section 76 — Certified copies of public documents

Summary

If a person has the legal right to inspect a public document, the government officer in charge of that document must provide a copy of it upon request, after the person pays the required fees. The officer must also add a certificate at the bottom of the copy stating that it is a true copy of the document or the relevant part. This certificate must include the date, the officer’s name and official title, and a seal if the officer is legally allowed to use one. Copies that meet these requirements are called certified copies.

Official Text

Every public officer having the custody of a public document, which any person has a right to inspect, shall give that person on demand a copy of it on payment of the legal fees therefore, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy that it is true copy of such document or part thereof, as the case may be and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed by such officer with his name and his official title, and shall be sealed, whenever such officer is authorised by law to make use of a seal;
and such copies so certified shall be called certified copies.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BSA §75 — Certified copies of public documents