ENACTMENT NO. 12 OF 1994 SYARIAH COURT EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 1994
PART II - PROOF CHAPTER 5 - DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
Section 50. Secondary evidence.
Secondary evidence includes-
(a) certified copies given under the provisions hereinafter contained;
(b) copies made from the original by mechanical processes, which in themselves ensure the accuracy of the copy, and copies compared with such copies;
(c) copies made from or compared with the original;
(d) couterparts of documents as against the parties who did not execute them;
(e) oral accounts of the contents of a document given by some person who has himself seen or heard it or perceived it by whatever means.
ILLUSTRATIONS
(a) A photography of an original is secondary evidence of its contents, though the two have not been compared, if it is proved that the thing photographed was the original.
(b) A copy compared with a copy of a letter made by a copying machine is secondary evidence of the contents of the letter if it is shown that the copy made by the copying machine was made from the original.
(c) A copy transcribed from a copy but afterwards compared with the original is secondary evidence, but the copy not so compared is not secondary evidence of the original, although the copy from which it was transcribed was compared with the original.