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The registers of the Colony of St. Helena 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 the Colony 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.
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For the purposes of the preceding Article all matters recorded in the register shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be regularly recorded.
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Subject to any requirements of rules of court, a document which purports to be issued in the Colony of St. Helena as an official copy of an entry in a register specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order and which purports to be authenticated by an officer of the Colony in the manner specified in that Schedule, 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.
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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.
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(1) This Order may be cited as the Evidence (St. Helena) Order, 1961.
(2) In this Order the expression “the Colony of St. Helena” includes the dependencies of St. Helena.
(3) 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 in St. Helena. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in St. Helena or an officer acting as his deputy. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.
Register of Births in Ascension Island. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in Ascension Island or an officer acting as his deputy. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.
Register of Births in Tristan da Cunha. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in Tristan da Cunha. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.
Register of Still Births in St. Helena. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in St. Helena. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.
Register of Still Births in Ascension Island. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in Ascension Island. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.
Register of Still Births in Tristan da Cunha. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in Tristan da Cunha. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.
Marriage Register Book The Registrar-General or an officer acting as his deputy. The signature of the certifying officer.
Register of Deaths in St. Helena. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in St. Helena. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.
Register of Deaths in Ascension Island. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in Ascension Island. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.
Register of Deaths in Tristan da Cunha. The Registrar of Births and Deaths in Tristan da Cunha. The signature and seal of the certifying officer.