Section 50. Secondary evidence (SYARIAH COURTS EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 1990

ENACTMENT NO 1 OF 1990
SYARIAH COURTS EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 1990

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;

(d) counterparts 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 it.

ILLUSTRATIONS

(a)

A photograph 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 afterward 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.