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The registers of the Cayman Islands 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 those Islands 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 Cayman Islands 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 said Islands 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 (Cayman Islands) Order 1965.
(2) This Order extends to all parts of the United Kingdom.
W. G. Agnew

SCHEDULE
Section 1


Register Certifying Officers Mode of Authentication
General Register of Births The Registrar-General The signature and seal of the Registrar-General.
Register of Marriages The Registrar-General or a Marriage Officer The signature and seal of the Registrar-General or the signature of the Marriage Officer concerned.
General Register of Deaths The Registrar-General The signature and seal of the Registrar-General.