ENACTMENT No. 8 Of 1990 EVIDENCE ENACTMENT OF THE SYARIAH COURT 1989
PART II - PROOF Chapter V - Documentry Evidence PRESUMPTIONS AS TO DOCUMENTS
Section 63. Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence.
Whenever any document is produced before any Court purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence or of any part of the evidence given by a witness in a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorised by law to take such evidence, or to be a statement or confession by any prisoner or accused person, taken in accordance with law and purporting to be signed by any Kadi, Kadi Besar, High Court Judge, Judge of Sessions Court or Magistrate or by any such officer as aforesaid, the Court shall presume that-
(a) the documents is genuine;
(b) any statements as to the circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true; and
(c) such evidence, statement or confession was duly taken.