IEA Section 81 — Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, private Acts of Parliament and other documents

Summary

Courts will automatically accept as genuine any document that appears to be an official government gazette, a newspaper or journal, or a copy of a private Act of the UK Parliament printed by the Queen’s Printer. The same applies to any document that a law says must be kept by a person, as long as it is kept in the required form and produced from proper custody.

Official Text

The Court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be the London Gazette or any Official Gazette, or the Government Gazette of any colony, dependency of possession of the British Crown, or to be a newspaper or journal, or to be a copy of a private Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom printed by the Queen’s Printer and of every document purporting to be a document directed by any law to be kept by any person, if such document is kept substantially in the form required by law and is produced from proper custody.

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• BSA §80 — Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, and other documents