ENACTMENT NO 1 OF 1990 SYARIAH COURTS EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 1990
PART II - PROOF CHAPTER 5 - DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE Public documents
Section 61. Proof of certain official documents
The following public documents may be proved as follows:
(a) acts orders or notifidations of the Federal Government or the Government of any State inany of its department-
(i) by the records: of the departments certified by the heads of the respective departments; or
(ii) by a Minister in the case of the Federal Government and by the Menteri Besar, the Chief Minister or a State Minister, if any, or the State Secretary in the case of a State Government; or
(iii) by any document purporting to be printed by the authority of the Government concerned;
(b) the proceedings of Parliament or of any of the Federal legislatures an of the legislature of any State-
by the minutes of he body or by the published Acts of Parliament, Ordinances, Enactments or extracts or by copies purporting to be printed by the authority of the government concerned;
(c) the proceedings of a municipal body or town board in Malaysia-
by a copy of the minutes of the proceedings certified by the lawful keeper thereof, or by a printed book purprting to be published by the authority of that body;
(d) the acts of the Executive or the proceedings of the legislature of a foreign country-
by gazettes published by their authority or commonly received in that country as such, or by a copy certified under the seal of the country or Sovereign, or by a recognition thereof in some Ordinance or Act of Malaysia;
(e) public documents of any other class in foreign country-
by the original, or
by a copy certified by the lawful keeper thereof, with a certificate under the seal of a consular officer of the Federation stating that the copy is duly certified by the officer having the lawful custody of the original and upon proof of the character of the document according to the law of the foreign country.