
1 
The registers specified in the first
column of the Schedule to this Order shall be deemed to be public registers
kept under the authority of the law of New Zealand and recognised by the courts
thereof as authentic records and to be documents of such a public nature as
to be admissible as evidence of the matters regularly recorded therein.
2 
For the purposes of the preceding Article
all matters recorded in any such register as aforesaid shall be deemed, until
the contrary is proved, to be regularly recorded.
3 
Subject to any requirements of rules
of court, a document which purports to be issued in New Zealand as an official
copy of an entry in any such register as aforesaid and which purports to be
authenticated in the manner specified in the Schedule to this Order shall,
without evidence as to the custody of the register or of inability to produce
it and without any further or other proof, be received as evidence that the
register contains such an entry.
4 
Nothing in this Order shall be taken
to prohibit or restrict the admission in evidence of any copy, extract, summary,
certificate or other document whatsoever which, apart from the provisions
of this Order, would be admissible as evidence of any particular matter, or
to affect any power which, otherwise than by virtue of this Order, is exercisable
by any court with respect to the admission of documents in evidence.
5 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Evidence
(New Zealand) Order, 1959.
(2) This Order extends to all parts of the
United Kingdom and shall come into operation forthwith.
W.G. Agnew

SCHEDULE


Register Certifying Officer 
Mode of Authentication
Register of Births Registrar-General
or Deputy Registrar-General Signature
or seal of Certifying Officer

Register of Deaths ditto ditto

Register of Servicemen's Deaths ditto
 ditto
Register of Maori Births 
ditto ditto
Register of Maori Deaths ditto ditto
Records of Overseas Births and Deaths ditto ditto

Register of Marriages ditto ditto

Register of Overseas Marriages
 ditto 
ditto
Register of Service
Marriages ditto ditto