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DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1882

DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1882 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, and other
enactments relating to the evidence of documents by means of copies
printed by the Government Printers.
[19th June 1882]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1898

DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1882 - SECT 1
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Documentary Evidence Act, 1882.

DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1882 - SECT 2
Documents printed under superintendence of Stationery Office receivable
in evidence.

2. Where any enactment, whether passed before or after the passing
of this Act, provides that a copy of any Act of Parliament,
proclamation, order, regulation, rule, warrant, circular, list,
gazette, or document shall be conclusive evidence, or be evidence,
or have any other effect, when purporting to be printed by the
Government Printer, or the Queen's Printer, or a printer authorised
by Her Majesty, or otherwise under Her Majesty's authority, whatever
may be the precise expression used, such copy shall also be
conclusive evidence, or evidence, or have the said effect (as the
case may be) if it purports to be printed under the superintendence
or authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1882 - SECT 3
Penalty for forgery.

3. If any person prints any copy of any Act, proclamation, order,
regulation, royal warrant, circular, list, gazette, or document which
falsely purports to have been printed under the superintendence or
authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, or tenders in evidence
any copy which falsely purports to have been printed as aforesaid,
knowing that the same was not so printed, he shall be guilty of
felony, and shall, on conviction, be liable to penal servitude for
a term not exceeding seven years, or to be imprisoned for a term
not exceeding two years, ....

DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT 1882 - SECT 4
Application of Act to Ireland.

4. The Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, as amended by this Act,
shall apply to proclamations, orders, and regulations issued by the
Lord Lieutenant, either alone or acting with the advice of the
Privy Council in Ireland, as fully as it applies to proclamations,
orders, and regulations issued by Her Majesty.

In the same Act, the term "the Privy Council" shall include the
Privy Council in Ireland, or any committee thereof.

In the same Act, and in this Act, the term "the Government
Printer" shall include any printer to Her Majesty in Ireland and
any printer printing in Ireland under the superintendence or
authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.