Section 59. Certified copies of public documents. (EVIDENCE ENACTMENT OF THE SYARIAH COURT 1989

ENACTMENT No. 8 Of 1990
EVIDENCE ENACTMENT OF THE SYARIAH COURT 1989

PART II - PROOF
Chapter V - Documentry Evidence
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Section 59. Certified copies of public documents.

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 therefor, together with a certificate, written at the foot of the copy, that it is a true copy of the document or part thereof, as the case may be, and the certificate shall be dated and subscribed by the officer with his name and his official title, and shall be sealed whenever the officer is authorised bv law to make use of a seal, and the copies so certified shall be called certified copies.

Explanation-

Any officer who by the ordinary course of official duty is authorised to deliver the copies shall be deemed to have the custody or the documents within the meaning of this section.