Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, private Acts of Parliament and other documents
AI Assist
Summary
Courts will presume genuine documents that appear to be the London Gazette, any Official or government Gazette, a newspaper or journal, or a copy of a private UK Act printed by the Queen’s Printer. The same presumption covers documents that law requires a person to keep, if they are kept substantially in the required form and produced from proper custody. That presumption stands unless evidence rebuts it.
Example
Priya produces a copy of an Official Gazette notification taken from the government records to prove a rule change. Because the copy is kept in the prescribed form and is produced from proper custody, the court will presume the Gazette entry is genuine, so Priya need not further prove its authenticity unless someone rebuts that presumption.
Bare Act
Enacted textThe Court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be the London Gazette or any Official Gazette, or the Government Gazette of any colony, dependency of possession of the British Crown, or to be a newspaper or journal, or to be a copy of a private Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom printed by the Queen’s Printer and of every document purporting to be a document directed by any law to be kept by any person, if such document is kept substantially in the form required by law and is produced from proper custody.
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