Section 62. Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies. (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
PRESUMPTIONS AS TO DOCUMENTS

Section 62. Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies.

(1) The Court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document which is by law declared to be
admissible as evidence of any particular fact, and which purports to be duly certified by any officer in Malaysia who is duly authorised thereto:

Provided that the, document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.

(2) The Court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified held, when he signed it, the official character which he claims in the document.