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Certified Copies of Documents in Office of Land Revenue Records to be admissible in Evidence in Cases where the Originals would have been admissible.
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VIII. Any Copy of or Extract from any Deed, Instrument, Document, or Writing, Map or Plan, which now is or at any Time hereafter shall be deposited in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments, shall at all Times hereafter be admissible in Evidence in any Court of Justice, or before any Person now or hereafter having by Law or by Consent of Parties Authority to hear, receive, or examine Evidence, in every Case in which the Original of or from which any such Copy or Extract shall purport to have been made would have been admissible in Evidence, provided such Copy or Extract be signed and certified, or purport to be signed and certified, by the Keeper of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments for the Time being, as a true Copy or Extract; and it shall not be necessary to give Evidence of the Handwriting of any such Signature or Certificate, or of the Fact that the Person whose Name is affixed thereto is the Keeper of the Land Revenue Records and Enrolments; provided that if any Officer shall wilfully certify any Document as being a true Copy or Extract, knowing that the same is not a true Copy or Extract, as the Case may be, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and be liable, upon Conviction, to Imprisonment for any Term not exceeding Eighteen Months.
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